How to install Webmin on CentOS

What is Webmin?
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. You can get it from it’s official site http://www.webmin.com/.

System’s Information:
- CentOS 4.4 (i.e. A linux based OS).

Installation Steps:

  1. Download the latest rpm version of Webmin. My current installing version is webmin-1.441-1.noarch.rpm.
  2. Install the Webmin rpm package by issuing the following command(Assumption: the rpm source is located in our current directory): # rpm -ivh webmin-1.441-1.noarch.rpm
  3. After the installation has been executed successfull, you can check if the Webmin service has been started by issuing the following command: # service webmin status
  4. That’s it for the installation steps, you can now login using your root id of the server at http://localhost:10000. When you’ve logined successfully, you should see the main page of Webmin like the picture shown below:

Webmin Main Page

January 2nd, 2009 @ 05:24 PM • Filed under Webmin