Webmin - A powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel

webmin web-based server management control panel

Webmin – A powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel

Webmin – A powerful web-based server management control panel.

Webmin is a powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel for Unix-like systems. Webmin allows the user to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify and control open-source apps, such as the Apache HTTP Server, PHP or MySQL.

Install Ubuntu 20.04 as a VM with 1GB ram, 1CPU, 8GB disk, and use a static IP. Enable SSH during install. Once completed log in via SSH using Putty or some other tool that lets you cut and paste.

1 – Log in and update your server.

sudo apt update -y && sudo apt upgrade -y

2 – Install dependency

sudo apt install software-properties-common apt-transport-https

3 – Add webmin repository

sudo wget -q http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - 

sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib"

4 – Install webmin

sudo apt install webmin

5 – check status

sudo systemctl status webmin

6 – Configuring the firewall (Optional)

sudo ufw allow 10000/tcp 
sudo ufw reload 
sudo ufw status

7 – Go to webmin login

https://server-IP:10000/

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Key Terms:

Open Source Software
web-based server management control panel
Webmin