Free Web Based Control Panel - Webmin 1.791 for Linux

Free Web Based Control Panel &ndash Webmin 1.791 for Linux

Webmin application Web Based Control Panel is based on the Perl and It uses TCP port 10000 with OpenSSL library. Using this tool we can manage system configuration like file system backup,viewing scheduled cron jobs service configuration like Apache,MySQL and PHP.

To Install Webmin Control Panel in Ubuntu

To install Webmin tool, we need to use Webmin repository.

Open the file /etc/apt/sources.list with nano editor

user1@linuxhelp:~$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the following lines at the bottom of the file and then save & close.

deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib

To Import and Install GPG Key

Using wget command, to download the key and then add this on system.

user1@linuxhelp:~$ wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
--2016-04-01 15:19:14--  http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
Resolving www.webmin.com (www.webmin.com)... 216.34.181.97
Connecting to www.webmin.com (www.webmin.com)|216.34.181.97|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1320 (1.3K) [text/plain]
Saving to: ‘ jcameron-key.asc.1’ 

jcameron-key.asc.1  100%[=====================> ]   1.29K  --.-KB/s   in 0.001s 

2016-04-01 15:19:15 (1.65 MB/s) - ‘ jcameron-key.asc.1’  saved [1320/1320]

user1@linuxhelp:~$ sudo apt-key add jcameron-key.asc.1
OK

To install Webmin control panel

user1@linuxhelp:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign http://linux.dropbox.com wily InRelease                                    
Ign http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk sarge InRelease           
Ign http://download.webmin.com sarge InRelease                                 
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily InRelease
....
...
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/restricted Translation-en      
Hit http://in.archive.ubuntu.com wily-backports/universe Translation-en        
Fetched 787 kB in 38s (20.3 kB/s)                                              
Reading package lists... Done

user1@linuxhelp:~$ sudo apt-get install webmin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  webmin
...
...
Setting up webmin (1.791) ...

Now the Webmin installation is completed. You can now login to https://linuxhelp:10000/ as root with your root password, or as any user who can use sudo to run commands as root.

To start Webmin

user1@linuxhelp:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/webmin start
user1@linuxhelp:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/webmin status
Webmin (pid 15529) is running

To Access Webmin

Open the web browser and type the following,

https://[IP address or host name]:10000

Example

https://192.168.5.157:10000

https://linuxhelp:10000

The above snapshot shows the Webmin login page.

Linux system status is viewed in the above snapshot

The configuration of webmin is shown in the above snap

This snap displays the webmin users.

The system running process with PID information is displayed in above snapshot.

The system software packages is displayed in above snap.

The above snap displays the scheduled cron jobs.

This snap shows the file system backup to restore.