Database Setup

Pimcore requires a standard MySQL database, the only thing you should assure is that the database uses utf8mb4 as character set.
If you create a new database just set the character set to utf8mb4.

Note: You have to create the database manually before you can continue with the web-based installer, which automatically creates the underlying database schema for Pimcore.

Command to Create a new Database

mysql -u root -p -e "CREATE DATABASE project_database charset=utf8mb4;"

Permissions needed for Pimcore

Pimcore requires all permissions on database level. You can create a user with the necessary rights with the following commands:

CREATE USER 'project_user'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'PASSWORD';
GRANT ALL ON `project_database`.* TO 'project_user'@'localhost';