How To Install Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04 - idroot

In this tutorial we will show you how to
install and configuration Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04. For those of you who
didn’t know, Webmin is a free control Panel for managing VPS. Webmin is a
web based interface which is used to manage VPS web hosting server.
With the help of webmin you can setup user account, apache, dns and file
sharing and other actions. Webmin very suitable for beginners who do
not know much about the unix or linux command line.

This
article assumes you have at least basic knowledge of linux, know how to
use the shell, and most importantly, you host your site on your own
VPS. The installation is quite simple and assumes you are running in the
root account, if not you may need to add ‘sudo’ to the commands to get
root privileges. I will show you through the step by step installation
Webmin on a Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) server.

Install Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04

Step 1. First you need add Webmin official repository and make sure that all packages are up to date.

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

1	sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

And add the following lines:

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

1 2	deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib

Fetch and install the GPG key:

sudo wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc sudo apt-key add jcameron-key.asc

1 2	sudo wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc sudo apt-key add jcameron-key.asc

Step 2. Installing Webmin.

Install Webmin with the following command:

apt-get update<br /> apt-get install webmin -y

1 2	apt-get update apt-get install webmin -y

Now, allow the Webmin default port via a firewall:

sudo ufw allow 10000

1	sudo ufw allow 10000

Step 3. Access Webmin.

Finaly,
we can access the webmin panel using our web browser. Webmin use 10000
as its default port. Type this into our URL address web browser.
https://ip-address:10000 then login as super user or root access
priviliges. If you are using a firewall, please open port 80 and 10000
to enable access to the control panel.

How To Install Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04 - idroot