Zabbix server is not running: the information displayed may not be current

Question

So all of a sudden, after a week of using it, I get an error message on my zabbix server gui (http://localhost/zabbix/.)

The error says: Zabbix serve

Answer 1

The zabbix-server daemon doesn't seem to like passwords with special characters in them. Unsure whether quotes would work in the configuration I just removed special characters from the database password, updated the configuration files and restarted the daemon.

Configuration parsing errors don't show up in logs for some reason.