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So I had a bit of a look at MAMP and figured it does exactly the same as what I already installed with Homebrew, just in it’s own container. Only it uses MySQL 5.7 – I’m running version 8.

That also ended up being the reason wordpress coudn’t connect to MySQL. MySQL 8 uses sha2 password validation, which WordPress doesn’t seem to support – hence it can’t connect to the database.
There seems to be workarounds on the SQL-server-site of the setup, but I decided to rollback to MySQL 5.7 until I figure out how to get WordPress to support sha2 MySQL login.

Followed this guide to Uninstall MySQL. Then installed [email protected] with Homebrew.

Everything is working great now! :o)

Thanks for taking your time to reply, Steven. :o)

I realise I’m in a bit over my head here ;o) but I’m ready to put some time and effort into getting this thing going and I’m willing to learn.

While setting up the Mac Mini I did come across LocalByFlyWheel (and also MAMP which seems sort of similar) but as far as I see they both have some degree of a paywall and I’m not really sure they are for actually hosting a website, as it seems they are meant to be tools for local development and testing – whereafter the website would be uploaded to a “real” web-host. Is that correct?
As I’m on a budget I would like the things to actually run on the Mini. I’m not counting on getting more visits than it can handle anyway.