I am having quite a bit of trouble getting webmin to work. I have installed the rpm (both types) and when i type: https://localhost:10000, nothing happens. I have followed the howtos on the site and the page never loads. Is there something I am missing?

I had some problems with webmin once with the same thing occuring on a Mandrake machine I was playing around with. I can't remember what exactly I did to fix but I do think I changed the port it was using from the config file. I think I used port 8080 when I was messing around with it.

Also you might want to try the name of you machine instead of localhost or possibly the IP address of your machine.

Example:

https://hostname:8080
or
https://192.168.0.1:8080

I'll let you know if I come up with some other resolutions, as its been awhile and I haven't messed with webmin in forever.

did you check that webmin is running?
% ps -e | grep webmin

Well, I typed ps -e |grep webmin but nothing shows up but when I use gnome-system-monitor it shows up there. Absolutely nothing happens when I type the address into the address bar, not even an error. The browser just says document (done).

if you want to check webmin's status, go ahead by doing this:

/etc/init.d/webmin { start | stop | restart }

your path might be different.

make sure it's started and then try accessing it via your IP. do other sites have similar issues, or is it only webmin?

or /etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin

i start it up manually like this:
cd /etc/webmin
./start

very good...

Go to the directory where webmin is installed (possibly something like /var/webmin) and type:

./setup.sh

This will take you through setting it up and tell you were every thing is located, port numbers, logins, whether you have SSL installed, etc.

You won't find Webmin in ps-ax. It runs under the built in web server which is something like "miniserv.pl".

If you can't get it using localhost, try using the IP number instead.