Newbie Installation

[waveney]

Hi,

For years I had a Cobalt RAQ server, and finally moved to a new server 2 months ago with Plesk, I like Plesk but hate the awful network the new server was on. I decided to move again, have a nice spec server that is well connected, but only had very basic capabilities, so I have ordered plesk myself and have tried to install it, with only partial success so far.

Primary problem: MySql - many problems that can be summed up as - ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'admin'@'localhost' (using password: YES), many packages failed to install and although the system is apparently loaded it wont run. I can login as admin or root to MySQL. I have looked around and found many posts relating to this, but none have so far worked - help please.

Minor Issue (at the moment): the default build puts the web sites in /var/www/vhosts/ the new server has most of the workspace as /home (only a few Gig as /var), will the system work by simply changing the entry in psa.conf file for HTTPD_VHOSTS to use /home?

[breun]

You should not be able to login to MySQL as root, as Plesk disables the MySQL root account (and uses 'admin'). Did you install Plesk on a freshly installed OS? If not, I definitely recommend doing that. Also a good time to make sure there's more space on /var (both websites and email are stored under /var).

[waveney]

The system was new 2 days ago, I had to remove a couple of the pre-installed packages before plesk loaded, MySQL is among those pre-installed. The System Runs CentOS 5.2.

How do I resize /var? I am experienced Linux user, but have never had to administer Linux at this level before.

[breun]

You can set the partition sizes when you install the OS and partition your drives. You can only resize existing partitions with data if you use LVM: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/ (Or you'd have to have free space on the drive or another drive so you can create a new partition, copy the data, blow the old one away and put the new one in as /var.)