Installing and Using Webmin

Webmin is a great web-based control panel for your site, able to automate your entire site without needing to know complex configuration details. Better yet, it's free!

First, you need to login to your zone via SSH.

We now need to download the latest version of webmin to your zone.

• Go to your home directory

cd ~

• Go to http://www.webmin.com/download.html
• Click on the link under “Solaris package format” (currently http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.441.pkg.gz)
• When prompted to save or open this file on your computer, click “Cancel”
• Find the “Direct Link” link, and copy the URL (right-click on the link and select “Copy Link Location”, “Copy Link” or similar)

• In your SSH session, type the following (make sure to leave a space after the upper-case letter O)

curl -O 

• Paste the copied URL into the SSH session. This should give you something like this:

curl -O http:internode.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/webadmin/webmin-1.441.pkg.gz
</xterm>
  * Once completed, we need to extract the package from its archive (remember to change the file name to match yours – you can press the “Tab” key on your keyboard to complete the file name).
gunzip webmin-1.441.pkg.gz

  * Add the Webmin package to your zone:
pkgadd -d webmin-1.441.pkg WSwebmin


The installer will ask you some questions – it's safe to answer yes to all questions by pressing the 'y' key. If there's no errors present, then you should now be ready to go!

===== Accessing Webmin =====
You can access your webmin from any computer with browser access to the web. Simply point your browser to:

http:<your-ip-address>:10000/**
(eg http://111.222.333.444:10000/)

You'll be presented with a login screen. The default login settings are:

^Username | root |
^Password | <your current root password> |

Once you've configured your DNS inside webmin, you will also be able to access it via the URL:

http://yourdomain.com:10000