kc-tr

With more and more people setting up home file/web servers I thought I might write this small tutorial on how to setup webmin(web based server administration system) on an ubuntu based linux box.

First thing you are going to need is to be root. If you do not already have root access, you can obtain root via the following:
1. open up a terminal(shell aka command line)
2. type in this command: sudo passwd
3. you will be greeted by a prompt stating "Enter New Unix Password" enter the password that you desire as prompted.
4. type in su root, you will then be prompted to enter the password you just put in.

Installing Webmin:
1. Once in a shell as root, you need to download the needed file, to do this first be in a directory that you will know where the file is located. I personally prefer the primary similar to C:\ on a windows machine. To get to the main directory type in cd \ then press enter. After doing this type in the following command: this will download the tarball to your primary directory, or the directory that you are currently in.

After you have downloaded the tarball use the following commands to extract the files:
You should now have extracted all of the files and moved into the directory where the webmin files are located at. Once at this point you start the installer by doing the following:
After running the setup script you will be prompted to enter information. You can change these values or leave them to defaults by simply pressing enter. Once you finish this step you are all done and webmin should be running!

If you have any questions please ask!

Edit: webmin supported OS list
http://www.webmin.com/support.html

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Bviper

Tutorial worked perfectly, only question is webmin supposed to have the defualt modules installed?

My webmin is quite barren with nothing to use and when trying to use the automated installer it sort of just sits there and the CPU usage jumps up to 99% for 2 hours and nothing happens.

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rabidgnome229

That's pretty much how you install anything on ubuntu

kc-tr

This is true however there are alot of people who are new to linux and simply dont know how to do such things, anything that could be helpful to them is worth posting

Can you post a screenshot of webmin? There should be quite a few things in it, and you can add more to it as well.

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archangelabove

So... I installed this.

What do I do with it? LOL.

Nothing to do really, Im going to get some more documentation on it before I mess with anything. Hoping this can help make my Linux Rig the fileserver I want it to be..

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Butterbum

What to do with it?!?!

After using webmin for the past year, i cant imagine running my servers at home without it. The best is how easy it is to access MySql databases. Its perfect for my php development server.

Just now i installed Samba file sharing with one click via webmin, and straight away it found my windows box.

I love webmin.

Mikey976

tried doing this install apparently the webmin download has been moved

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/web..._1.450_all.deb

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Bviper

I suggest following the guide that's available on http://webmin.com/deb.html especially the one covering apt. That way later when you need to update you can just run "apt-get update".

Also if you aren't 100% reliant on a gui I'd ditch Ubuntu and install it on debian.

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Battista

Webmin can now be installed using a .deb package as Bviper stated.

I don't know if I would recommend activating the root account either. You can run those commands using sudo, or sudo su to gain root access.

PuffMaN

haha
its way easy in mandriva linux!

"urpmi webmin" as root in Terminal :]

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