Redmine installation issues rake command issue, MySQL database issue?

I have somewhat of a complex issue involving several different programs including redmine, MySQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails etc. This is on Windows XP.

I am following the redmine instructions here: http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/RedmineInstall

I am on step 5. where I am suppose to type RAILS_ENV=production rake db:migrate

When I type this in the command prompt and hit enter I get an error: "RAILS_ENV" is not a command blah blah.

So I reorder it to: rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production

This seems to work correct, but I get the following:

C:\redmine-1.2.1>rake db:migrate RAILS_ENV=production --trace
* Invoke db:migrate (first_time)
* Invoke environment (first_time)
* Execute environment
  rake aborted!
  Access denied for user 'redmine'@'localhost' (using password: YES)
  C:/redmine-1.2.1/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters
  /mysql_adapter.rb:620:in `real_connect'
  C:/redmine-1.2.1/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters
  /mysql_adapter.rb:620:in `connect'
  C:/redmine-1.2.1/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters
  /mysql_adapter.rb:203:in `initialize'
  C:/redmine-1.2.1/vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/connection_adapters
  /mysql_adapter.rb:75:in `new'

Here is my database.yml file contents:

MySQL (default setup).

production:
  adapter: mysql
  database: redmine
  host: localhost
  username: redmine
  password: ****
  encoding: utf8

development:
  adapter: mysql
  database: redmine_development
开发者_Python百科  host: localhost
  username: root
  password:
  encoding: utf8

 # Warning: The database defined as "test" will be erased and
 # re-generated from your development database when you run "rake".
 # Do not set this db to the same as development or production.

 test:
  adapter: mysql
  database: redmine_test
  host: localhost
  username: root
  password:
  encoding: utf8

test_pgsql:
  adapter: postgresql
  database: redmine_test
  host: localhost
  username: postgres
  password: "postgres"

test_sqlite3:
  adapter: sqlite3
  database: db/test.sqlite3

I really need some direction here. It's almost like there is a problem with my users/passwords. I have changed the passwords not to contain "!" or any other special characters. I do have capital and lower case letters.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

DemiSheep

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So, you have created the 'redmine' mysql user with the password specified in database.yml?

Can you connect to this user using mysql client? (e.g. mysql -uredmine -pyourmysqlpassword)

Does the user have all required privileges?