dear all, Kindly assist me with the following issue i am having installing moodle 2.6 on a centos 6.5 minimal install. I am using MariaDB as the database Error: Database connection failed It is possible that the database is overloaded or otherwise not running properly. The site administrator should also check that the database details have been correctly specified in config.php tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log indicates the following error [Mon May 05 18:20:54 2014] [error] [client ***.***.***.***] PHP Warning: mysqli::mysqli(): (HY000/2002): Connection timed out in /var/www/html/moodle/www/lib/dml/mysqli_native_moodle_database.php on line 375, referer: http://*.*.*.*/moodle/ regards, -- Alex Watila Consultant •E-Learning •Virtualization •QMS •ISMS •Information Systems •ICT