Failed to create virtual server : DBI connect fail

Anyone know why this happens?

dave

Hmm, normally I’d suggest looking in /etc/webmin/mysql/config to make sure the MySQL root password is correct.

But from the message above, it seems to be missing a username that it’s connecting with.

So, I might still verify that Virtualmin is using the correct MySQL root password, but did you copy and paste that error? It really said this:

Access denied for user ‘’@‘localhost’

Rather than this:

Access denied for user ‘root’@‘localhost’

Just making sure! Thanks,
-Eric

Are you sure that MySQL is started? When you log into Virtualmin, make sure you’re on the System Information screen, and look in the “Status” section – you can start/restart MySQL from there.

Also, in Webmin -> Servers -> MySQL Database Server -> Module Config, make sure the root MySQL password is correctly set.
-Eric

see "wonky forum" post to see why, but anyway there are two threads on the same topic here.

For my part all I had to do was go to the webmin mysql module and login as root. then the password was saved and my root create functions worked fine.

Dave