Webmin is an open-source web-based system configuration application for Linux system administration. With the help of this tool we can manage internal system configuration such as setting up user accounts,disk quotas, services configuration like Apache, DNS, PHP or MySQL, file sharing and much more. Webmin applications is based on the Perl module and it uses TCP port 10000 with OpenSSL library for communicating via browser.
Step 1: Install webmin
- Install required packages [root@localhost]# yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay [root@localhost]# yum -y install http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/webmin-1.740-1.noarch.rpm
- Add IP address you allow to access the webmin
[root@localhost]# vi /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
add follows to the end (IP address you allow to access)
allow=ip_address/24
- Restart the webmin
[root@localhost]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin restart Stopping Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin Starting Webmin server in /usr/libexec/webmin Pre-loaded WebminCore
Step 2: Access webmin
Start Web browser on localhost or on another client on the network and access to "https://(server's hostname or IP address):10000". Then, Webmin site is displayed, login with root account.
Thats it!!
