Setting Up NGINX with Wordpress - MYSQL Setup

I’m wanting to migrate an existing Wordpress installation to my new droplet.

I created a droplet with the default LAMP stack. I thought I would try NGINX, so I removed Apche and installed Nginx, referring to

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-configure-single-and-multiple-wordpress-site-settings-with-nginx

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-migrate-wordpress-from-shared-hosting-to-a-cloud-server-with-zero-downtime

I’m not clear what needs to be done to setup Mysql. Do I need to follow step 2 as outlined here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-install-linux-apache-mysql-php-lamp-stack-on-ubuntu

If I try to run the install script, it appears the root password for mysqp has already been set, so I’m not sure if this step is needed or not

root@portlandhdgraphics:/usr# /usr/bin/mysql_secure_installation

NOTE: RUNNING ALL PARTS OF THIS SCRIPT IS RECOMMENDED FOR ALL MySQL SERVERS IN PRODUCTION USE! PLEASE READ EACH STEP CAREFULLY!

In order to log into MySQL to secure it, we’ll need the current password for the root user. If you’ve just installed MySQL, and you haven’t set the root password yet, the password will be blank, so you should just press enter here.

Enter current password for root (enter for none): ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘root’@'local