Build webmin Linux Server

These are the notes from my build of a Linux webmin server.

 

First determine what version of Linux you are running on in the event you don't know

# cat /proc/version

Now let's see what IP Address is assigned to the server.

Let's first find out which network interfaces are active

# netstat -i

Now we know eth0 is the active network interface, let's see how its configured and with what IP

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=192.175.209.18
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.175.209.1
BOOTPROTO=none
ONBOOT=yes

 

 

One last step to verify you can connect to the Linux server is to verify the SSH Server is configured correctly and running.  Open up the ssh_config file and verify root login is allowed

# vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Change

PermitRootLogin no

To

PermitRootLogin yes

Restart ssh services

# /etc/init.d/sshd restart

If you can get to webmin.com then you can download webmin by using the wget command (below example is the RPM for the redhat vesion... download the correct version for what you are installing it on)

# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.690-1.noarch.rpm

In my case I don't have internet access on my linux server so I have to download on my Mac and SFTP to my internal intranet server as root.

# sftp root@192.175.209.18

Once it's on the linux server, you just need to install it by running the installation

# rpm -U webmin-1.690-1.noarch.rpm

Note: transfer database you would export old using mysql

# mysqldump -u YourUser -p YourDatabaseName > sqlfile.sql

Then import the database on the new server

# mysql -u YourUser -p YourDatabaseName < sqlfile.sql