How to install Webmin on Linux (CentOS, Fedora, RPM)

MarcusLVPSHosting

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. For more info pleae visit www.webmin.com

In this small tutorial I will explain you how to install webmin on CentOS. It is pretty simple operation where with just few steps you will have the webmin control panel up and running on your server.

First you will need to download the file from their official downloads page.

Using the command line you can also download it with wget. To do that just exec this command:

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.690-1.noarch.rpm

Once the file is downloaded you can install it with:

rpm -Uvh webmin-1.690-1.noarch.rpm

That’s it. After that you can log in at:

http://YOUR_IP_ADDRESS:10000

Another method that you can use to install webmin is yum. Yum also allows you to keep Webmin update to date extremely easy (yum update)

To do that edit "/etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo" with the following command:

nano /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo

and put the following text in the file:

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

save and close the file.

After that import the GPG key.

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

and once everything is done you can install webmin with:

yum install webmin

Shoaib_A

@MarcusLVPSHosting thanks for the tutorial but it is very easy to find tutorials for & install Webmin. If you want to do tutorial, please select something uncommon or which is not easy for people to install.

MarcusLVPSHosting

Maybe someone will search this forum and won't find it. It is not hurt to have it. I have a lot of tutorials and I will put them one by one here, so some of them may be common and easy to find, some of them may not, but again, it is not a mistake to have them here too.

Lm85H4gFkh3wk3

This tutorial is exactly the same as the one on the Webmin site. http://www.webmin.com/rpm.html Copying and pasting it here adds little value. If this is representative of the "lot of tutorials" you want to post here, I'd think twice about it.

sirmbhe

Yeah I agree. It is useful if you just learn about managing your server and happen to be visiting LET a lot. Webmin is very easy and a tutorial won't hurt anyone. Thank you for the tutorial @MarcusLVPSHosting . I'd like to see more tutorial from you, if you have more tutorials kindly share it to the community

MarcusLVPSHosting

@rajprakash - maybe because that is the only way how to install webmin....? Or maybe you have another way? If you have please share it.

wych

@MarcusLVPSHosting said:

Maybe someone will search this forum and won't find it.

Maybe someone needs a lesson in GoogleFu.

@MarcusLVPSHosting said:
rajprakash - maybe because that is the only way how to install webmin....? Or maybe you have another way? If you have please share it.

Or how about you stop posting duplicate articles?

netrix

and dont forget to set iptables if you are using centos 6^.

MarcusLVPSHosting

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MarcusLVPSHosting

Or use SSL as described at: http://www.webmin.com/ssl.html

wych

And now you are using this thread as a sales plug...

ricardo777

I always yum install the rpm file URL.