Introduction


Webmin is a free web-based interface for the administration of Unix systems. It can be a useful management panel to set-up, monitor and run a Linux server without the need to know the complex CLI structure. Simple tasks like creating user accounts, managing web servers, setting up iptables firewall, updating your system and even manage MySQL databases can be accomplished from a web based interface accessed from any web browser.

 

In this guide we will show you how to perform the installation of Webmin on a CentOS VPS.

 

How to install Webmin with YUM repository


We believe the most practical way to install Webmin is from the yum repository. It allows you to install and update Webmin via RPM. For this, you need to create the /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo file as follows:

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo

 

Insert the following content to the file:

[Webmin]
name=Webmin Distribution Neutral
#baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum
mirrorlist=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/mirrorlist
enabled=1

 

Save and close the file. Now you should get and install the GPG keys for the installed packages, like this:

wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
rpm --import jcameron-key.asc

 

Now, install Webmin with this command:

yum -y install webmin

 

All dependencies will be resolved and installed automatically.

Once installed you should be able to access your Webmin panel from by entering the following on your web browser:

http://YOUR_SERVER_IP_ADDRESS:10000
 

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