FreePBX No connection to Asterisk

I am new to asterisk and freePBX. I set up a server years ago but it was very basic and used for less than a month. I’m now launching a new company and found myself in need of a VOIP system so I’m back to asterisk. I installed asterisk on my debian VPS, then installed free PBX. At first i was having issues with getting the freePBX installer to find my asterisk server. After creating an aserisk user on debian and changing the run user-group in /etc/default/asterisk the installer worked. After the FreePBX installation, localhost/ was redirecting to localhost/admin/config.php but was only showing a blank screen. After running fwconsole ma installall the page started working. Despite that, connection to asterisk cannot be established. Running fwconsole start works just fine, but when running fwconsole restart I get get UCP Node Server is not running. When running fwconsole restart again I get Core FastAGI Server is not running & UCP Node Server is not running. **After checking logs for freepbx I found this:**

[2020-Nov-23 14:42:32] [freepbx.INFO]: Connection attmempt to AMI failed [] []

**The UCP error log in asterisk yielded this:**

2020-11-23 13:40 +00:00: { [Error: Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘::1’ (111 “Connection refused”)] code: 2003 }

2020-11-23 13:40 +00:00: There was an error with MySQL Connection

**ucp_out.log in asterisk displays this:**

2020-11-23 13:40 +00:00: Starting FreePBX…
2020-11-23 13:40 +00:00: { AMPDBUSER: ‘freepbxuser’,
2020-11-23 13:40 +00:00: AMPDBPASS: ‘****’,
2020-11-23 13:40 +00:00: AMPDBHOST: ‘localhost’,
2020-11-23 13:40 +00:00: AMPDBNAME: ‘asterisk’,
2020-11-23 13:40 +00:00: AMPDBENGINE: ‘mysql’,
2020-11-23 13:40 +00:00: datasource: ‘’ }

I am using mariadb, is there a way maybe this user or database does not exist? Thank you for your help! --- Forgot to mention that when accessing Advanced Setting in FreePBX I get a blank page.