Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Installing Webmin on CentOS 5.5 Tutorial

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix and Linux based Systems. 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.

Installing Webmin on CentOS 5.5 Tutorial
1.First install the GPG key with which the packages are signed

    # rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc

2.Add the Webmin YUM Repository

  # vi /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo
Copy and paste the following lines.

[Webmin]
name=Webmin Distribution Neutral
baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum
enabled=1

3.Now to install Webmin

    # yum install webmin

Finally browse to your machine on port 10000

https://localhost.localdomain:10000/
as root with your root password.

3 comments:

  1. Wait, how do you browse to https://localhost.localdomain:10000/

    remotely??

    I'm attempting to install it remotely using putty and I get the message, "Operating system is CentOS Linux
    Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://localhost.localdomain:10000/"

    But now I do not know how to get it to work. Do I have to be in front of the computer physically?

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  2. you can type https://:10000 from another pc in a web browser.

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  3. you can type https://(ip address of server):10000 from another pc in a web browser.

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