SERVER : Install Webmin
Tuesday, 9. January 2007, 10:27:17
After a while it's not that much fun to modify files and settings on the server using and SSH console. After all, you've seen all those "fancy" routers that have a web page administration didn't you ? Well, you can get something similar on your server, here's how I did it.
You need to download the latest version of WebMin, you can get it from Here. You need to choose the "Debian package suitable for Debian, Ubuntu or other derived Linux". Download it and copy it to your server (generally i use the home directory of my user, so that i don't fill the HDD with garbage).
The latest version as of when I'm writing this post is 1.310.
The only little problem is that the package is about 10Mb in size, so it might take a while to download it (took about 4 minutes on my machine).
So, after you've copied it to the server, go to that folder and execute this command :
Here's my output :
This means that now we can configure our system by going to the above mentioned address (well it's better if we go to https://ip_to_server:10000).
The first time you access the site, you'll get a similar error (I'm using Opera so it might look a little bit different in other browsers):
Just press Accept, after all, you know the site, it's yours
After that, you'll get to the login screen, it should look like this :
If you created the root user use that to log in, otherwise you'll need to use the user you've created when you installed the server.
First thing we want to change is the default port, so that not everybody can access our webmin interface.
If everything is ok, you should see something like this :
Now select Webmin->Webmin Configuration and from there Ports and Addresses you should see this :
After that you'll end up here :
Now change the 2 values and put a number you want, just make shore you remember it
Best is if you put a number from this range 10000-30000 for example 12345(you must make shore this port is not used by anything else).
After that press SAVE and then press Logout and reload the webpage, but remember now you have to load https://ip_to_server:12345.
You need to download the latest version of WebMin, you can get it from Here. You need to choose the "Debian package suitable for Debian, Ubuntu or other derived Linux". Download it and copy it to your server (generally i use the home directory of my user, so that i don't fill the HDD with garbage).
The latest version as of when I'm writing this post is 1.310.
The only little problem is that the package is about 10Mb in size, so it might take a while to download it (took about 4 minutes on my machine).
So, after you've copied it to the server, go to that folder and execute this command :
sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.310_all.deb
Here's my output :
Selecting previously deselected package webmin. (Reading database ... 16998 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking webmin (from webmin_1.310_all.deb) ... Setting up webmin (1.310) ... Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://merlin:10000/ as root with your root password, or as any user who can use sudo to run commands as root.
This means that now we can configure our system by going to the above mentioned address (well it's better if we go to https://ip_to_server:10000).
The first time you access the site, you'll get a similar error (I'm using Opera so it might look a little bit different in other browsers):
Just press Accept, after all, you know the site, it's yours
After that, you'll get to the login screen, it should look like this :
If you created the root user use that to log in, otherwise you'll need to use the user you've created when you installed the server.
First thing we want to change is the default port, so that not everybody can access our webmin interface.
If everything is ok, you should see something like this :
Now select Webmin->Webmin Configuration and from there Ports and Addresses you should see this :
After that you'll end up here :
Now change the 2 values and put a number you want, just make shore you remember it
Best is if you put a number from this range 10000-30000 for example 12345(you must make shore this port is not used by anything else).
After that press SAVE and then press Logout and reload the webpage, but remember now you have to load https://ip_to_server:12345.
WIDGETIZE