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I have new VPS node with DirectAdmin, but I still want to have also Webmin. Why?

• Webmin gives me possibility to make changes in server configuration without SSH
• With Webmin I can access to my server everywhere, where is computer with internet connection
• Is it possible to look system, even when DirectAdmin is down in some reason.
• It has good file manager module
• and many other good things

So I am using DirectAdmin for daily user management, SSH for administration tasks (updates etc) and Webmin is like backdoor and other control panel, what I can use for tasks, where I don’t want or can use DA and SSH.

Here are simple steps, to install Webmin under CentOS 5.2:

• Install all updates

yum update

• Install perl, with needed modules

yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay

• Move to your root home directory

cd

• Download latest Webmin (look to http://webmin.com/ website, for the latest). Right now is latest 1.420 and so is link for this version:

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.420-1.noarch.rpm

• Install webmin RPM package (thanks for that * at the end of webmin – you don’t need to write out full filename)

rpm -i webmin*

• Log in to webmin – you are getting similar message after install:

Operating system is CentOS Linux
Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://yordomain.com:10000/
as root with your root password.

You can find your new and fresh webmin installation at https://yordomain.com:10000/