Use phpMyAdmin which is included in XAMPP Lite to create the database:
Open
http://localhost/phpmyadmin/or hit the Admin button next to MySQL in the XAMPP control panel and you should see the following page:
Select the collation utf8_general_ci.
Hit Create.
Go to the Privileges tab and click on Add a new User to create a dedicated user for concrete5.
When prompted, use the following credentials to fill in the following fields:
User Name:
concrete5Host:
localhostThis makes sure that the user can only be used if the database is accessed by the local machine.Password:
concrete5The password to access your database. Feel free to use a more secure password than concrete5, just make sure you remember it when we install concrete5 in the next step.
Hit Go and the user is available and your database is ready for concrete5!