Questions tagged [webmin]

A web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Setup user accounts, DNS, file sharing and the program is freeware.

Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

It could be considered a free alternative to the commonly used CPanel & WHM Hosting/Server administration solutions.

http://www.webmin.com/


Webmin can be expanded by installing modules, which can be custom made. Aside from this, there are two other major projects that extend the functionality of webmin:

  1. Usermin presents and controls a subset of the features available in Webmin, such as webmail and other user-level tasks, rather than administrator-level tasks.
  2. Virtualmin, which is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage domains. See .
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How to install mod_ssl for Apache httpd?

Ok So I installed Apache httpd a while ago and have recently come back to it to try setup SSL and get it serving several different tomcat servers. At the moment I have two completely separate Tomcat instances serving up to slightly different…
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creating new admin webmin user in shell

Installed webmin and want to create a new user non root to login, follow the steps : Edit the file /etc/webmin/miniserv.users and add a line for your new user like anubhav:12ZVLjpihs:0 Edit file /etc/webmin/webmin.acl and copy the first line for…
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Unable to access Webmin through browser

I followed DigitalOcean's tutorials on how to set up your server with SSH, creating a new user, firewalls etc. The first tutorial in the series is linked…
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Webmin php-lib.pl modification

I have updated the PHP version to 5.5.26. With PHP 5.4 my Apache configuration with FCGI was: AddHandler fcgid-script .php AddHandler fcgid-script .php5 With the new version of PHP I need put other config to works:
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How do I set my user password on my Google Cloud Ubuntu instance?

I have started an Ubuntu 15.10 instance on Google Cloud and installed Webmin as per here: http://www.webmin.com/deb.html Webmin has been installed successfully and I can see the login page in my browser window, however I need to type my username…
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How to setup a wget cron job command

How to setup a cron job command to execute an URL? /usr/bin/wget -q http://www.domain.com/cron_jobs/job1.php >/dev/null 2>&1 Why can't I make this work!? Have tried everything.. The PHP script should send an email and create some files, but none is…
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Setting up a cron job with Webmin

I am trying to setup a Cron job using Webmin to run every 5 min. It needs to target a .php file and run the php script in that file. When I enter the path to the file in the "Command" field, it doesn't work. I am just wondering what I am doing…
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How to disable two factor authentication in Webmin

I have Webmin installed on 5 or 6 servers but a few months back decided to install two-factor authentication for logging into Webmin using Google Authenticator app on my phone. To my surprise, I lost all my tokens in the Google Authenticator app…
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Linux Perform MySQL Backup to time-based path from Webmin

I was trying to setup a scheduled task in Linux Ubuntu Server 12.04 (CronJob) to perform a daily backup of all my MySQL Databases on midnight. I have installed the known Webmin (A nice web interface for managing the Web Servers). So my issue is:…
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Why can't I listen on 'localhost' but can I listen on '127.0.0.1'?

I'm having difficulties understanding why the following line of code works in node.js: server.listen(12345, "127.0.0.1"); // works but this one does not: server.listen(12345, "localhost"); // fails Coding localhost literally results in the…
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Can't restart webmin [status 2]

I've updated webmin, but now, it refuse to restart : ● webmin.service - LSB: web-based administration interface for Unix systems Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/webmin; generated; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sun…
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How to fix "E: The list of sources could not be read" could not be read error?

I have added these two lines in etc/apt/sources.list.d/webmin.list `deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contribdeb` `http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib` Now, on running the "sudo apt-get update", i…
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Configuring Nginx reverse proxy for webmin

I already have a working https site running. My config below is working fine for webmin. Except that when I login the web address rewrites the port no 10000 next to it, therefore getting error server not found. can anyone help me to correct this…
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Apache2 Won't Start

I have set up ubuntu server on an old pc with webmin as well. I am not sure what was going on but i restarted the server and when it boots it now get this when Apache tries to start. * Starting web server apache2 apache2: Syntax error on line 237…
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Implementation of SVN “branch”, “tag” and “trunk” with composer and config file

I have read a lot of Q/A here about the meaning of the directories “branch”, “tag” and “trunk” in the SVN repos, and as now I think I understood, I'm trying to implement it. I use Virtualmin to manage my server, and it creates repos for me through…
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