ISPConfig - new install - can't login w/ default admin admin

[grewu]

Installed Perfect Server for Hardy Heron 8.04 from this guide: http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-ubuntu8.04-lts
Installed ISP Config from this guide:
http://www.ispconfig.org/manual_installation.htm
Now when I access the ISPConfig page from 192.168.2.11:81 i can't get past the login page without a "ERROR 101: wrong username or password." when I try to enter the default admin admin
Same thing from localhost:81
I can't access the page with the recommended http://www.xyz.de:81 (which is the default host name and domain used for the install).
I have tried to reinstall over the initial installation which only made it worse because then I couldn't even browse to the login page.
I uninstalled ISPConfig and reinstalled with the original resulting error message.
The only thing I know I missed is in the last section of the ISPConfig guide when it advises the proper course of action for dealing with quota, the referenced "/home" file does not exist in my copy of /etc/fstab so I am not able to apply the advised edit.

netstat -tap output

root@server1:/home/sysop/Desktop/install_ispconfig# netstat -tap
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 *:mysql *:* LISTEN 6930/mysqld
tcp 0 0 *:www *:* LISTEN 6005/apache2
tcp 0 0 *:81 *:* LISTEN 29675/ispconfig_htt
tcp 0 0 server1.example.:domain *:* LISTEN 5101/named
tcp 0 0 localhost.locald:domain *:* LISTEN 5101/named
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdoma:ipp *:* LISTEN 5456/cupsd
tcp 0 0 *:smtp *:* LISTEN 29579/master
tcp 0 0 localhost.localdoma:953 *:* LISTEN 5101/named
tcp 0 0 *:https *:* LISTEN 6005/apache2
tcp 0 0 server1.example.com:81 server1.example.c:39316 TIME_WAIT -
tcp6 0 0 [::]:imaps [::]:* LISTEN 5389/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 [::]:pop3s [::]:* LISTEN 5429/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 [::]:pop3 [::]:* LISTEN 5406/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 [::]:imap2 [::]:* LISTEN 5365/couriertcpd
tcp6 0 0 [::]:ftp [::]:* LISTEN 29622/proftpd: (acc
tcp6 0 0 [::]:domain [::]:* LISTEN 5101/named
tcp6 0 0 [::]:ssh [::]:* LISTEN 5126/sshd
tcp6 0 0 [::]:smtp [::]:* LISTEN 29579/master
tcp6 0 0 ip6-localhost:953 [::]:* LISTEN 5101/named
root@server1:/home/sysop/Desktop/install_ispconfig#

I checked my config.inc.php file but don't see anything obvious in there.

hosts file:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.2.11 server1.example.com server1
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

I'm almost positive that something of this nature must be a simple fix - something I've missed along the way.
Any help would be greatly appreciated - I'm on a very steep learning curve here.

[falko]

Did you see any errors during ISPConfig installation?
Can you check (e.g. with phpMyAdmin) that the ISPConfig database exists and that it is not empty?

[grewu]

Thanks for the quick reply falko. I don't recall seeing any errors during install. I also don't see any sign of an ISPConfig database when I use phpMyAdmin. Admittedly, I'm not sure if I'm looking in the correct place though.

[falko]

I also don't see any sign of an ISPConfig database when I use phpMyAdmin.
Ok, that's a big problem. What's the output of df -h?
Do you see any warnings/errors in the ISPConfig installation log in the /var/log directory?

[grewu]

Output of df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 71G 3.0G 65G 5% /
varrun 1.5G 144K 1.5G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.5G 0 1.5G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.5G 44K 1.5G 1% /dev
devshm 1.5G 12K 1.5G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.5G 40M 1.4G 3% /lib/modules/2.6.24-24-generic/volatile



I found these warnings:
Fri Jun 12 14:59:21 CDT 2009 - [ISPConfig] - /home/sysop/Desktop/install_ispconfig/install.php, Line 794: WARNING: could not dump old db to file existing_db.sql

Fri Jun 12 14:59:21 CDT 2009 - [ISPConfig] - /home/sysop/Desktop/install_ispconfig/install.php, Line 808: WARNING: could not read in db_ispconfig.sql
Fri Jun 12 14:59:21 CDT 2009 - [ISPConfig] - /home/sysop/Desktop/install_ispconfig/install.php, Line 815: WARNING: could not import existing_db.sql

[falko]

Ok, there really was a problem with the database during installation, but I can't say why. At least disk space was no issue...