Zabbix not listening and no mysql connection

[AdrianSevcenco]

Hi! I m trying to install zabix on a centos 6.5 server
the problem si that the zabbix_server do no listen
and cannot create mysql connection...

but: i can connect by doing mysql -u zabbix zabbix -p and the show tables;
looks ok

my settings are:

[root@monitor zabbix]# grep ^[0-9,A-F,a-f] /etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
DebugLevel=2
DBHost=localhost
DBName=zabbix
DBUser=zabbix
DBPassword='PAROLA_SECRETA'
DBSocket=/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
AlertScriptsPath=/usr/lib/zabbix/alertscripts
ExternalScripts=/usr/lib/zabbix/externalscripts
FpingLocation=/usr/sbin/fping
Fping6Location=/usr/sbin/fping6
AllowRoot=0

[root@monitor web]# cat zabbix.conf.php
<?php
// Zabbix GUI configuration file
global $DB;

$DB['TYPE'] = 'MYSQL';
$DB['SERVER'] = 'localhost';
$DB['PORT'] = '3306';
$DB['DATABASE'] = 'zabbix';
$DB['USER'] = 'zabbix';
$DB['PASSWORD'] = 'PAROLA_SECRETA';

// SCHEMA is relevant only for IBM_DB2 database
$DB['SCHEMA'] = '';

$ZBX_SERVER = 'localhost';
$ZBX_SERVER_PORT = '10051';
$ZBX_SERVER_NAME = '';

$IMAGE_FORMAT_DEFAULT = IMAGE_FORMAT_PNG;
?>

does anyone have any idea why this is not working?
i found no information in any installation turorial...

Thanks a lot!!
Adrian

[Odilhao]

Can you post the zabbix_server.log , maybe you need to grant access for zabbix user on localhost socket.

Try this

grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by ‘password’

[AdrianSevcenco]

sorry for not replying earlier... i found the problem : i escaped the password in zabbix_server.conf. it seems that the password is read as all characters after DBPassword=
i removed the '' and now it is working. maybe is worth mentionined in help somewhere..
Thanks!
Adrian