Installing Drupal

Hello,

I’m setting up Drupal on a shared hosting server, but I keep getting this error during the database setup step:

PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'drupal'@'localhost'

I’ve double-checked my database name, user, and password in settings.php, and they all seem correct. Could this be a permissions issue, or is there something else I should check?

Whenever we install a new site we use a profile which admittedly has a lot of configuration to import and modules to enable. We are beginning to run into out of memory issues with PHP when running a fresh install. The step which takes the longest is the install_config_import_batch. When I run an install locally, this step takes about 500 seconds and 350+ MB of memory.

What are some ways we can optimize this? Is there a way to skip this config import step and run it after the installation?

On admin/config/development/configuration/full/import

The error message "The directory ../config is not writable" probably indicates that Drupal is unable to write to the sync directory where configuration imports and exports are managed. What is the suggested path and where is it set?

Hey all, looking for any experience / recommendations for a Drupal setup on either an NGINX or Litespeed server.
I see that NGINX is more widely used but Litespeed appears to be more widely supported?
For context I'm not the one doing the installation I've just been recommended two different solutions by two parties and I'm looking for real world examples.

FINALLY, I thought that Drupal CMS was going to be a great option for a person like me who knows nothing about coding etc.  However, alas I was not able to install  it on Ubuntu via DDEV. I even tried to install it on Windows. But it seems to be too difficult as well.  Drupal created a lot of hype around the concept that the starshot was for non-geeks. However based on my desperate experience i still believe that it is not yet for a person like me. 

At home I use OpenSUSE Leap 15.6, and I am not sure what my ISP uses. The composer script works, but the startup shell says it only works on Debian and Ubuntu.