[HOWTO] - Install Webmin on 10.1/10.0

[yoshi]

Before we start I wanted to state that if you have removed perl from your MacOSX installation that
HowTo will not work for you. Webmin is a Web interface for a lot of the Unix Command line utilites
like Sendmail, BIND 8, and lots of other things. The install isn't very hard if you follow the steps
below here. If you have any questions or problems please post asking here.

Step 1) Download webmin to your desktop http://www.webmin.com/webmin/downloa...in-0.91.tar.gz

Step 2) Start the terminal application and type: cd /users/yourusername/desktop

Step 3) Type sudo mv webmin-0.91.tar.gz /url/local and type your administrator password when prompted

Step 4) Type gunzip webmin-0.91.tar.gz

Step 5) Type tar -xvf webmin-0.91.tar

Step 6) cd webmin-0.91

Step 7) Type sudo ./setup.sh

Step 8) While running this setup it will ask a number of questions, you can leave most at the default
state but on the one that ask about your operating system Make sure you type the number for
MacOSX/MacOSXserver which is 42 I believe (I did the setup a while back) after that it will ask for a
version of the OS, type 1 for 10.0 and type 2 for 10.1 or above. The rest of the questions are pretty
self explanitory.

Step 9) Open up your browser and type in http://localhost:10000/ (if you changed the default port be
sure to type it instead of 10000)


I am very sure that most of you here will benefit from this HowTo: Have fun with it

[scope]

That's all good and well, but tell me how to install the Net::SSLeay Perl Module correctly.

[yoshi]

heh scope I would have to try it myself, where can I find it and I will try it out...

`Yoshi

[scope]

Click the Other tab in Webmin, and then click Perl Modules. Click the button with "..." next to the CPAN option. Search for "SSL." Click the install button. It's supposed to download, extract, compile, and install it, but I keep getting an odd error.

[yoshi]

You must install openssh (get it from openssh.com) version 0.96c and run the installers. Then get the lastest version of netssl and run it like this:

perl Makeinstall.PL -t

when done type

sudo make install

then it should work.. at least it did for me

`Yoshi

[vegemite]

Webmin is cool. But if you are a new Unix sysadmin I have one piece of advice:

Don't use webmin until you don't need it.

Webmin's GUI will make some tasks really easy... but if you don't know how to do those things from the terminal, you haven't mastered them. In this case webmin will just be a crutch and it will hold you back in the future.

Once your skills have developed, webmin can be a nice time-saver though.

Just my $0.02.

[TommyWillB]

Can someone post some screen shots?

[yoshi]

Originally posted by vegemite
Webmin is cool. But if you are a new Unix sysadmin I have one piece of advice:

Don't use webmin until you don't need it.

Webmin's GUI will make some tasks really easy... but if you don't know how to do those things from the terminal, you haven't mastered them. In this case webmin will just be a crutch and it will hold you back in the future.

Once your skills have developed, webmin can be a nice time-saver though.

Just my $0.02.

I agree I think its best people learn about the terminal first before they dump into the GUI's. On the other hand for people who want to do something that hard one time I think that webmin is a handy tool.

`Yoshi