Webmin Install from Source on Ubuntu
Webmin is a great tool to install if you would like a gui based program to help manage your server. This guide will show you how to install and setup webmin ver 1.441 on a ubuntu 8.04, but will work for other versions of ubuntu linux. The first thing that you are going to want to do is login under su.
su
cd /opt
mkdir webmin
cd webmin
wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.441.tar.gz
tar -xzvf webmin-1.441.tar.gz
After you have issued the following commands, you should now have the latest webmin source program downloaded and extracted into the /opt directory. After you have the webmin program extracted you are going to want to install a few other pieces of software to allow you to connect to webmin under SSL.
apt-get install openssl perl perl-modules libpam-runtime libauthen-pam-perl libnet-ssleay-perl
After you have installed the above software, issue the next few commands, which will startup the install process.
cd webmin-1.441
./setup.sh
During the install process, all you have to do is press the enter button a few times and answer the questions. Just choose a port number, a user name and password and select yes for SSL and start webmin at boot time. To access the webmin page, open up a web browser and type in your ip and the port number. For instance:
https://192.168.1.1:10000
192.168.1.1 = Ip address
10000 = port number
If you don’t know what your ip address is, go to the konsole and type in
ifconfig
root@homeserver:/opt/webmin/webmin-1.441# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:76:5c:33:0c
inet addr:192.168.1.1 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::216:76ff:fe5c:330c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:17891 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22347 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:15784214 (15.0 MB) TX bytes:2786847 (2.6 MB)
Interrupt:21 Base address:0×1200
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
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