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Expand Up @@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ Optional php extensions that may be needed:

EspoCRM supports MySQL 5.7 or greater and MariaDB 10.1 or greater. These are no special peculiarities. All default settings are fine for EspoCRM.

### Basic user setup
In this example it will create a database named `espocrm`, a user named `www_espo`, and give permission for the `www_espo` to only access the `espocrm` database when connecting from localhost.

```
CREATE SCHEMA espocrm;
CREATE USER 'www_espo'@'localhost' identified with mysql_native_password by 'ThePasswordYouWillBeUsing';
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON espocrm.* TO 'www_espo'@'localhost';
```

### MySQL 8 support

MySQL 8.0.4 has changed a default authentication method to `caching_sha2_password` which is not supported by PHP (at the time of writing). For MySQL 8 it should be changed to `mysql_native_password` method. For a user it can be done with the query:
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