urgent questions regarding reisntallation of ispcfg

I am a long-tiem user of ispcfg.
recently i installed a server and deployed ispcfg for a client.

After he was happy I handed over rot details as my job was complete.

somehow they managed to delete the /root/ispconfig folder, so I tried reisntalling, as the db is still there and seems intact.
I chose DE as language when reisntalling as the client is german.
In the installation steps, I came to this question, which I do not rememebr having encountered until now:

I entered localhost then I came to this question and stopped as I am not sure what to answer:

Why would it ask me for the user? doesn't ispcfg pick its own user???

I am unsure how to procede :-(

please give me some advice.

 

any hints? anyone isntalled ispconfig in German?

Otherwise what am I supposed to answer if ispcfg asks me for MySQL server? is localhost right?
What do I answer for MYSQL user?

 

I can advise you the following:

Please enter your MySQL server: localhost
"localhost" is fine

Please enter your MySQL user: root
I don't know how you you named the MySQL-user and it's password, but it is the MySQL user account, you've defined during "The Perfect Setup".
Probably it is the username "root".

Please enter your MySQL password: Your MySQL password (as defined for you ISPConfig database during your first setup)

Please enter a name for the ISPConfig database: Enter here the name of the database for ISPConfig.
Important: enter the same name as during your first setup, otherwise ISPConfig will create a new database.
The name of the ISPConfig database can be found in /var/lib/mysql.

Please enter the IP address of the ISPConfig web: Enter here the IP-address of the server itself.

Please enter the host name: www
"www" is fine here.

Please enter the domain: domain.tld
Enter your domain name her without www.

Please select the protocol (http or https (SSL encryption)) to use to access the ISPConfig system: http

Enter "http" or "https" here, depending your needs.

 

thx.

now its all clear to me. I thought ispcfg was using its own user, of course I know the root details for accessing mysql, but installing for the first time in German must have clouded my judgement

gonna continue as soon as I get home from work, fortunately I left the installation open in a screen session

 

perfect the "forced update" went nice, the old database is being used