INSTALL WEBMIN ON CENTOS 7

Simple, yet detailed instructions on how to install Webmin on Centos 7, add firewall exceptions for Webmin port and even change the default Webmin port if that’s required.

Login to your remote server over SSH with root credentials. Ideally you should use putty, which supports copy and paste.

Create a new file webmin.repo in /etc/yum.repos.d/ using following command and press Enter.

1	vi /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo

Empty vi editor  will open. Press Insert button on your keyboard, which will allow you to insert commands into vi console.

Now highlight and copy (ctrl-c) below text.

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[Webmin] name=Webmin Distribution Neutral #baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum mirrorlist=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/mirrorlist enabled=1

Place the mouse cursor right at the top of putty window (vi editor file) and right click your mouse (auto paste). It will paste the copied text into vi editor.

Exit VI insert mode by pressing ESC on your keyboard. Now quit VI editor and save the changes, to do so, type

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:wq

and press ENTER. VI editor will close and you’ll be back to Centos SSH command line.

We’ll need to install webmin GPG key now, using following command. Just copy and paste (right mouse click in putty) this into SSH, then press ENTER.

1	rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc

Next step is to update the repositories and all available package updates, to make sure we’re installing the latest version of Webmin. Run following command:

1	yum check-update

Now we can proceed to an actual Webmin installation, execute following command:

1	yum install webmin -y

Above will take a moment, because we’re not installing only latest version of Webmin, but also all its dependencies.

Now execute following commands to make sure that Webmin starts automatically every time you reboot your server:

1	chkconfig webmin on

Now reboot your server, Webmin will automatically start. Or just start the Webmin service manually from the console without a reboot (not necessary):

1	service webmin start

Simple, wasn’t it?

However, because most of us as accessing our servers remotely, we’ll need to cover couple more things before we’re done.

Because CentOS 7 iptables were replaced with FirewallD so we should me sure that Webmin’s default port 10000 is enabled and thus accessible externally. To do so, run following command (add –permanent to the end of the line if you’d like this to be a permanent firewall change):

1	firewall-cmd --add-port=10000/tcp --permanent

If it works, great. Otherwise if you get a following (very common on newly installed servers) error, it means, that FirewallD is not currently running on your system:

It means exactly what it says: FirewallD is currently not running on your Centos 7 system.

We’ll need to start it first. To do so, use following commands:

1 2	systemctl start firewalld firewall-cmd --state

Then add the firewall exception for port 10000 once again:

1	firewall-cmd --add-port=10000/tcp --permanent

Complete output should look like this:

Now we should be able to access Webmin by opening browser at your server’s ip address (or domain name). Go to http://ipaddress:10000. If everything worked correctly, you’ll be greeted to a Webmin login screen:

Login with your root username and password and Webmin should load:

And that is it. Webmin runs on port 10000 and is installed on Centos 7 operating system.

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Those of you, who would like to change their default Webmin port from 10000 to something else, follow this steps:

Open file miniserv.conf (which stores webmin config) in vi console by executing following command:

1	vi /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

Again, press Insert key on your keyboard to enter vi console insert mode. Look for the line 1 and line 16 which stores the port number Webmin currently listens on:

Go to line 1 and line 16 and change the port number from 10000 to whatever you wish. In my case I want to run Webmin on port 443, so that’s what I will change it to:

Now we can exit VI insert mode by pressing ESC on the keyboard and quit VI editor while saving the changes we’ve made. To do so, type:

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:wq

Now, add FirewallD exception for your port (in my case 443) and remove existing exception for port 10000:

1 2	firewall-cmd --add-port=443/tcp --permanent firewall-cmd --remove-port=10000/tcp --permanent

Something it’s a good idea to reload firewall after changing ports:

1	firewall-cmd --reload

Now restart Webmin:

1	/etc/webmin/restart

You should see following output:

And we’re done, you can access Webmin on a new port (in my case 443):

source :  http://www.joe0.com/2014/10/17/how-to-install-webmin-on-centos-7/