Setup.php Keeps Going Back To Welcome Screen

[Bryan.T]

I installed Zabbix 7.0 on a fresh install of Ubuntu 24.04 following the Zabbix install guide here: Download and install Zabbix 7.0 LTS for Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble), MySQL, Apache

I installed everything per the install instructions, and have the zabbix_server.conf file set to connect to a remote DB server.

When I go to https://<zabbix IP>/zabbix/setup.php the "Welcome" screen shows up, I click "Next Step" which takes me to the "Check of pre-requisites" screen with everything showing as "Ok".

When I click "Next Step" to try and go to the "Configure DB connection" screen, instead it takes me back to the "Welcome" screen.

I checked the zabbix server log, apache2 error log, and php error log files, and there are no errors reported.

I assume there is possibly a permission error that need to be resolved, but I can't track down the error. Can anyone help point me in the right direction?



NOTE: I have also tried installing 6.4 on Ubuntu 22.04, and I get the same problem.

[Bryan.T]

For anyone who may have this problem in the future, I was able to solve my problem.

found that the issue was with my using the fully-qualified domain name instead of the IP address. http://<FQDM>/zabbix/setup.php was not working until I properly setup Apache2. After that, I was able to connect and finish the setup.