Installing Webmin

Introduction

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Webmin is a powerful and intuitive web-based interface for managing Unix-like systems, including Ubuntu 🐧. This guide will walk you through the steps to install Webmin on your system.

Setting up the Repository

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Setup

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The simplest and best way to get Webmin is to use automatic webmin-setup-repo.sh script to configure repositories on your RHEL or Debian derivative systems 🤖. It can be done in two easy steps:

curl -o webmin-setup-repo.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/webmin/webmin/master/webmin-setup-repo.sh

After that has downloaded. run the following command:

sudo sh webmin-setup-repo.sh

This script will automatically setup your repository and install our GPG keys on your system.

Install

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If Webmin repository was setup using our webmin-setup-repo.sh as described above then Webmin can be installed as easy as:

sudo apt-get install webmin --install-recommends

Access

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After successful Webmin installation, you can access its interface by entering https://<Your-Server-IP>:10000 in your browser 🔗. Check that your firewall configuration allows access through port 10000.

Conclusion

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You have successfully installed Webmin on your Ubuntu system! 😊 Remember to replace your-ubuntu-server-ip with the actual IP address of your server and access it using a secure connection (HTTPS) 🔒.

Note: Make sure you have a valid SSH key or password set up for root user, as Webmin requires authentication 🚪.