Installing Webmin on CentOS

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I recently got a MediaTemple VE Server, one of the best unmanaged VPS servers available today. Its built to be a highly efficient and performant utility VPS, with high-end hardware, top-tier connectivity and superior virtualization technology.

The only one head-ache with this server is that you have to manage everthing from top to bottom. Linux Server Management is obviously not a easy task for newbies. However there are various ready tools to reduce this headache, however you will have to setup them on your own initially.

My choice of control panel was Webmin. Webmin is one of the best open source control panel. Here goes the official description:

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

So now lets install webmin step by step:

Step 0 : Install dependencies

For CentOS 5.1 (or lower) we need to install few dependecies. Just connect to your server through SSH and use the following command:

yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay

Note: This step is not required in case you are using CentOS 5.2 or above, since they are already present.

Step 2 : Install Webmin

a. Change the directory using the following command

$ cd /usr/src

b. Download webmin package from http://www.webmin.com/download.html

$ wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm

Note: You can replace the download link with the latest version of the package.

c. Install RPM

$ rpm -i webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm

Step 2: Open Webmin

To open webmin just open the browser and type https://your-ip-address:10000 like the example below:

https://420.420.420.420:10000

Once you open the link in the url you see a login window like below:


You can login with your root username and password.

Step 3: Start using webmin !

Outputs of my Installation process is as below:



[root@ve ~]# cd /usr/src
[root@ve src]# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm
--2010-10-23 00:52:20--  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm
Resolving prdownloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.59
Connecting to prdownloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.520/webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm [following]
--2010-10-23 00:52:21--  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.520/webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.59
Reusing existing connection to prdownloads.sourceforge.net:80.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.520/webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm [following]
--2010-10-23 00:52:21--  http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.520/webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm
Resolving iweb.dl.sourceforge.net... 70.38.0.134
Connecting to iweb.dl.sourceforge.net|70.38.0.134|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 16094665 (15M) [application/x-redhat-package-manager]
Saving to: `webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm'

100%[======================================>] 16,094,665  3.66M/s   in 4.3s    

2010-10-23 00:52:25 (3.60 MB/s) - `webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm' saved [16094665/16094665]

[root@ve src]# rpm -i webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm
warning: webmin-1.520-1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 11f63c51
Operating system is CentOS Linux
Webmin install complete. You can now login to http://ve.p26dhbmy.vesrv.com:10000/
as root with your root password.


Additionaly you can use virtualmin and usermin along with webmin.
I shall explain you regarding installation of virtuamin and usermin in the coming days.Stay tuned 🙂

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