Hello.
Installing MySQL 8 on my UWS for the 1st time (MySQL-08_00_20_00), the mysqld always "dies" with the following error messages (the warning about the character set can be easily fixed):
2020-05-05T18:13:03.675228Z 0 [System] [MY-010116] [Server] C:\UltraWebServer\core\mysql80\bin\mysqld.exe (mysqld 8.0.20) starting as process 28984
2020-05-05T18:13:03.681135Z 0 [Warning] [MY-013242] [Server] --character-set-server: 'utf8' is currently an alias for the character set UTF8MB3, but will be an alias for UTF8MB4 in a future release. Please consider using UTF8MB4 in order to be unambiguous.
2020-05-05T18:13:03.742546Z 1 [ERROR] [MY-011011] [Server] Failed to find valid data directory.
2020-05-05T18:13:03.746639Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010020] [Server] Data Dictionary initialization failed.
2020-05-05T18:13:03.752877Z 0 [ERROR] [MY-010119] [Server] Aborting
2020-05-05T18:13:03.757263Z 0 [System] [MY-010910] [Server] C:\UltraWebServer\core\mysql80\bin\mysqld.exe: Shutdown complete (mysqld 8.0.20) MySQL Community Server - GPL.
No need to say that folder c:\UltraWebServer\core\mysql80\data\ is correctly in place with its contents.
It does not happen with MySQL 5.x
How can i fix it?