Having installed Craft 3 using Composer, I'm attempting to run the Craft setup. Everytime I try, I get the following error:
Testing database credentials... failed: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1044] Access denied for user 'xxx'@'%' to database 'xxx'
where xxx is the correct username and db name. Obviously, it can't connect to the database for some reason. I have also attempted the entire install manually without Composer and get the same issue with not connecting to the db. I have also tried manually editing the .env file with the correct details after installing with Composer. No joy.
Looking at the error, I would expect the user to read: user 'xxx'@'localhost' given that I specified localhost as the server. I'm not sure why it specifies '@' instead but I suspect that is a clue.
I believe that port 3306 is used as the default TCP/IP port and that simply not specifying a port will not lead it to use Unix Socket instead. I raise this as I believe it may also be a clue to the issue - I can connect to the database using Querious (mysql database software) but only if I specify using Unix Socket instead of TCP/IP and leave the socket path blank (this using an SSH tunnel). My knowledge in this area is very shaky but I thought it might be worth mentioning in case it helps. I'm using Serverpilot.
Hopefully someone can shine a light?
xxx@localhost?