# not creating virtual servers

**URL:** <https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/not-creating-virtual-servers/39111>\
**Category:** Help! (Home for newbies)\
**Created:** [April 5, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/not-creating-virtual-servers/39111 "2011-04-05T19:47:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![scottbb](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@scottbb](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/scottbb)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/not-creating-virtual-servers/39111/1 "2011-04-05T19:47:05Z")

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Hello there,

I am having some trouble creating a virtual server. I am going to the Virtualmin site and then clicking on Add Virtual Server filling out all information which is [pilotalk.net](http://pilotalk.net) and the server is [server.pilotalk.net](http://server.pilotalk.net) which is where Virtualmin is. When I get done creating the Virtual server here is what I get back from Virtualmin:

Setting Up Virtual Server  
Setting Up Virtual Server  
In domain [pilotalk.net](http://pilotalk.net)  
Creating administration group pilotalk …  
… done

Creating administration user pilotalk …  
… done

* * *

Failed to create virtual server : --------------------------------------------------------------------------------  
Return to previous page

Thanks for any help.

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**Author:** ![Eric](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Eric](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Eric)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2011, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/not-creating-virtual-servers/39111/2 "2011-04-05T22:52:13Z")

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Hmm, so you don’t actually see an actual error – nothing shows up after “Failed to create Virtual Server”?

Do you see any errors in the Webmin logs located in /var/webmin/miniserv.error?

Also, what if you go to System Settings -\> Re-Check Config, does that show everything as being okay?

-Eric

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**Author:** ![scottbb](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@scottbb](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/scottbb)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2011, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/not-creating-virtual-servers/39111/3 "2011-04-06T19:57:29Z")

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Eric,

I did see an error that openpam a perl module was not installed so I went in to Webmin and installed the suggested perl modules. I found this in the miniserv.error log. Thanks for the nice catch I didn’t really know where too look for errors.

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**Author:** ![system](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cd96d761e326db4b2bef94886a639109bd7a8e76.svg) [@system](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/not-creating-virtual-servers/39111/4 "2020-04-30T05:33:14Z")

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Closed on April 30, 2020, 5:33am UTC