Not taking config into account

[LawsHosting]

Yes, I know there are a lot of "zabbix server is not running the information may not be current" posts about, however:

[Z3001] connection to database 'zabbix' failed: [1045] Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)
2260:20150829:173800.765 database is down: reconnecting in 10 seconds

and the zabbix_server.conf

/etc/zabbix/zabbix_server.conf
/root/zabbix-2.4.6/conf/zabbix_server.conf
/usr/local/etc/zabbix_server.conf

Not one of them has root as the DBUser

To set up the database, I did:

mysql -uroot -p
create database zabbix character set utf8 collate utf8_bin;
grant all privileges on zabbix.* to zabbix@localhost identified by '<password>';
quit;
mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix < schema.sql
mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix < images.sql
mysql -uzabbix -p zabbix < data.sql

What the heck is going on?

[ingus.vilnis]

Hello and welcome to Zabbix forums!

How did you get so many configuration files?

Now I see you can at least start your Zabbix server and see the log file. The configuration file is also listed in the log when starting Zabbix server.

cat /tmp/zabbix_server.log | grep using

Once you get the correct path to the file you can continue from there.

Hope this helps!

Best Regards,
Ingus