Greeting, Newbie here. (STILL)

I installed Webmin a while ago and haven't use CentOS linux for a while. Tried to started it using the following command in my browser (Firefox) and got the following messages.

Don't know where to go from here to get it working and I sure would appreciate some help here.

Using CentOS 6.7

https://192.168.1.90:10000 ->> command use to start.

Message Firefix returned:

Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to 192.168.1.90:10000. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Thank you for any help.

Is webmin running? Open a terminal, and run the command 'ps aux | grep webmin' ( without the quotes ) and post the results. Here is what I see on my Slackware 14.1 system:

If you get just one line, then webmin is not running. I don't use centos, so I can not tell you how to start it. You will have to look at the docs for that.

This is not starting webmin "https://192.168.1.90:10000" you are asking firefox to connect to port 10000 on address 192.168.1.90, once webmin has been started, and it needs to be secured; because of the 's' in https. Webmin can be configured for a secure connection, if it is not, the connection will fail.

The command to start webmin in Slackware is '/etc/rc.d/rc.webmin start'. That will work when the execute bit is set for rc.webmin. Look at your docs for centos to see how to start a background task.

Thanks, I'll get the information requested and post it here.

As requested:

[root@centos hrifkind]# ps aux | grep webmin
root 3412 0.0 0.2 96276 2964 ? Ss 21:04 0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/libexec/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
root 4781 14.2 2.6 110296 27032 ? S 21:26 0:00 /usr/libexec/webmin/webmincron/webmincron.pl
root 4804 0.0 0.0 103308 904 pts/1 S+ 21:27 0:00 grep webmin
[root@centos hrifkind]# service webmin status
Webmin (pid 3412) is running

Is this running on your system, locally, or is this another system somewhere else?

If it is your local system, what happens if in FF you type in the location bar,

'localhost:10000' ( without the quotes ) ?

If this is another system, somewhere else, can you ping the system form yours?

I re-read your original post. Try to connect with http; not https and see if it connects.

"ssl_error_rx_record_too_long" > http://192.168.1.90:10000/

Did a little searching, based on the error Habitual pointed out. There are several threads dealing with this error message. I would suggest the OP have look to this one:

-->https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7012859

There are others that deal with SSL certificates. Since the OP has not give us a lot of information, configuration, is the OP running on a virtual machine etc, It makes sense to ask for more information on the what the OP has configured. That may lead us to a solution.

SSL certificates are beyond my experience. I invite anyone with more knowledge to help.

Greetings:

I apologize for taking so much time in getting back to this thread as I was out of commission for a while.

I have resolved the issue described in this thread using Webmin/Usermin and Firefox.

Below you will find the steps which I used to resolve this problem.

Sometimes there just is too much security in an applications and that goes with current versions of Firefox. However the steps described below will resolve the issue and then you can use Webmin with Firefox:

1. Open a browser which comes along with the destro you are using. Im using CentOS and it comes with the default browser Konqueror.
2. Open Konqueror and enter something like this in the URL address area as an example of course after Webmin/Usermin has been downloaded and installed:
HTTPS://192.168.1.40:10000
3. When Webmin comes up, in the left panel, click Webmin Configuration.
Now move over to the right pane and down to the SSL Configuration icon, click on it. At the top of the page you should see a tab for filing out a Self Signed Certificate. Fill in the details and at the bottom click Create Certificate.


Thats it. The same procedure can be used for Usermin. Restart Firefox and test.

Thanks again for everyones help.

Glad it worked out!