I had installed the LAMP server option as well. Problem solved with manual creation of the amahihda user with appropriate credentials, and creation of the hda_production database.

Hopefully someday there is some guidance available on installing on something other than a bare virgin system.

Amahi installation consistently fails, apparently problems creating the anahihda user in MYSQL. The fail message is:

Error message: Access denied for user 'amahihda'@'localhost" (using password: YES)
Error SQLSTATE: 28000

Any suggestions to work around this?