Problems with default log in after installation

I'm having problems logging in straight after a fresh installation. The guide I followed was this for Ubuntu 14.04

https://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-...2-php-mysql-pureftpd-bind-dovecot-ispconfig-3

I get the ISP landing page correctly but for some reason the default username admin and password admin isn't working for me correctly.

Error
Username or Password empty.

Doing a bit of a search this seems to be a problem with a php configuration referencing the SQL db but I can't narrow it down. Anyone experienced this before? Any ideas on where to go looking in the config to try resolve this?

I used the verfication script at the end of the tutorial to verify the install and it did throw back saying php-auth and php-pear weren't there but I checked and they are.
<code>
You missed to install these packages
php-auth
php-pear
You need to install these packages. To install these packages you need to run the command apt-get install package_name
You can cross check the particular installation as follows:
dpkg -l | grep package_name | cut -d ' ' -f3
root@myserver:~$ dpkg -l | grep php-auth | cut -d ' ' -f3
php-auth
php-auth-sasl
root@myserver:~$ dpkg -l | grep php-pear | cut -d ' ' -f3
php-pear
</code>

 

I'm not using a local MySQL server for the DB but a central MySQL server. The file does contain the MySQL server information though
$conf['db_type'] = 'mysql';
$conf['db_host'] = 'mysql.domain.com';
$conf['db_database'] = 'dbispconfig';
$conf['db_user'] = 'ispconfig';
$conf['db_password'] = '****************';
$conf['db_charset'] = 'utf8'; // same charset as html-charset - (HTML --> MYSQL: "utf-8" --> "utf8", "iso-8859-1" --> "latin1")
$conf['db_new_link'] = false;
$conf['db_client_flags'] = 0;

define('DB_TYPE',$conf['db_type']);
define('DB_HOST',$conf['db_host']);
define('DB_DATABASE',$conf['db_database']);
define('DB_USER',$conf['db_user']);
define('DB_PASSWORD',$conf['db_password']);
define('DB_CHARSET',$conf['db_charset']);

 

Hi Till,

I found this on the bug tracker. Does this still apply?

http://bugtracker.ispconfig.org/index.php?do=details&task_id=860

The MySQL Server needs to be on the same as ISPConfig?

 

Ok that's fair enough. I was trying to avail of our already in place backup system for MySQL and reduce the load on the VM where ISPConfig is running. I will re-install using a local MySQL server and might switch to the Nginx configuration

Thanks for the reply