Your guide was MONEY getting me started. I now run the server on a dedicated machine running Ubuntu, but I still use your guide as a reminder of stuff like how to make alias commands in Linux and whatnot. 🤟🏻
I've been so lucky cause I built my azerothcore first time yesterday after a couple of hours of them dropping mariadb support, so I built it on top of mysql 8.4 directly. Damn migrations are ugly!
I updated the installation text file for the original guide and that should be all you need. I removed the Maria DB references so it should install the correct mysql 8.4 database out of the gate.