Comments on How to install Webmin on Ubuntu 15.04
Webmin is a web-based interface for system administrators of Linux systems. It is quite simple, using any web-browser you can set up user accounts, Apache, Installations etc. Webmin helps all those who are not comfortable with the command line but want to manage their servers. This tutorial covers Installation and a little work around with Webmin on Ubuntu 15.04 (Vivid Vervet).
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One alternative to manually editing the sources file is to use the add-apt-repository script. It's normally used with ppa repositories, but can also be used to add non-ppa repos by enclosing the deb line in double quotes thus:
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib"
sudo add-apt-respository "deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib"
This has the advantage of working in all currently released and supported versions of Linux as well as variants such as LinuxMint. It doesn't add the signing key, but it does eliminate a couple steps when adding the repository.
Can coexist with ISPCONFIG ?
Yes. But be careful to not edit config files with webmin that are managed by ispconfig e.g. the apache vhost files.
Webmin is a good tool. I use it for updates, alerting/server status, command shell, Bind management (on servers that do not have ISPconfig) and with it is easy to import database files that are on local server (since phpMyAdmin wont do that.) It's also nice to have to manage any other service if you don't have ISPconfig installed.
I have used Webmin on at least 6 server set ups through the years. Fantastic tool for installing servicesand managing Apache2 (which is not easy command line). I just could never (andI mean never) get email to workon any server I installed Webmin on. Installed ISPConfig on my last serverset up on Amazon EC2 Ubuntu instance (which I accidentally deleted two days ago and have since redid completely) and first time I tried it, email was up and working as soon as I set up my name servers on my domains.
Easy! Bam! Just the way I like it!
There are just a few things Webmin can do that ISPConfig cannot.
at the step "
cd /root
wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
apt-key add jcameron-key.asc "
i had some isseus. the cd did'nt work and for the apt-key command i had to use sudo.
hi i can't install Firewall on Webmin. Help me
Adding the key should be done like this instead, otherwise you get errors on "apt-get update"
wget -q http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -