The specified password for user account 'root' is not valid, or failed to connect to database server

Question

I am getting this error while installing WordPress using Windows platform installer 5.0 on a Windows Server 2012R2.

Currently I have a php site with mySQL on that se

Answer 1

Finally found the solution.

I had Connector/Net 6.9.9 installed

I uninstalled it and then Installed Connector/Net 6.4.6

Old version of Connector can be downloaded here(https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/net/)