So all of a sudden, after a week of using it, I get an error message on my zabbix server gui (http://localhost/zabbix/.)
zabbix server
The error says: Zabbix serve
Zabbix serve
In my case, this occurred because the password in the server config file was commented out.
Open the server config file: # sudo vim /etc/zabbix/zabbix-server.conf
Scroll down to db user and below there will be the password with a # commenting out. Remove the hash and insert your DB password.