Problem on starting webmin and usermin

satimis · 12-04-2007, 09:04 AM

Hi folks,

Ubuntu 7.04 server amd64 (Host OS)
VMWare
CentOS 5 (Guest OS)

Webmin and Usermin are running on Ubuntu. I can't start Webmin and Usermin on Firefox by running;

https://localhost:10000
https://localhost:20000

I must run;
https://domain.com:10000
https://domain.com:20000

to start them.

On console
$ sudo /etc/init.d/webmin restart

Code:

Password:
Stopping Webmin server in /usr/share/webmin
Starting Webmin server in /usr/share/webmin

Webmin doesn't start

$ sudo /etc/init.d/usermin restart

Code:

Stopping Usermin server in /usr/share/usermin
Starting Usermin server in /usr/share/usermin

Usermin doesn't start

Please help. TIA

satimis

camorri · 12-04-2007, 10:02 AM

Two things come to mind, first of all do you have webmind running? From a konsole, verify it is there with the command 'ps aux | grep webmind' ( without the quotes ).

Second, do you have an entry in your /etc/hosts file for 'localhost 127.0.0.1' ? If not add it, and retry.

satimis · 12-04-2007, 10:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

Two things come to mind, first of all do you have webmind running? From a konsole, verify it is there with the command 'ps aux | grep webmind' ( without the quotes ).

Thanks for your advice.

$ ps aux | grep webmin

Code:

root      5270  0.0  0.2  61348  9672 ?        Ss   Dec04   0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/webmin/miniserv.pl /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
satimis   5846  0.0  0.0   5028   836 pts/0    S+   00:55   0:00 grep webmin

$ ps aux | grep usermin

Code:

root      5674  0.0  0.2  51764  8196 ?        Ss   Dec04   0:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/usermin/miniserv.pl /etc/usermin/miniserv.conf
satimis   5848  0.0  0.0   5024   828 pts/0    S+   00:56   0:00 grep usermin

Quote:

Second, do you have an entry in your /etc/hosts file for 'localhost 127.0.0.1' ? If not add it, and retry.

$ cat /etc/hosts | grep localhost

Code:

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback

satimis

camorri · 12-04-2007, 12:51 PM

Those two items look good to me. I did some poking around, and in on the Webmin config you can set up IP access controls. If 127.0.0.1 is not in the list of allowed IP addresses, you would be allowed to connect with other IP's. So you domain name would be another IP.

If you can connect, have a look to see if 127.0.0.1 is an allowed IP address. If that doesn't fix it, I'm at a loss.

satimis · 12-04-2007, 08:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by camorri

Those two items look good to me. I did some poking around, and in on the Webmin config you can set up IP access controls. If 127.0.0.1 is not in the list of allowed IP addresses, you would be allowed to connect with other IP's. So you domain name would be another IP.

If you can connect, have a look to see if 127.0.0.1 is an allowed IP address. If that doesn't fix it, I'm at a loss.

Hi camorri,

Thanks for your advice. The problem comes on iptables!!!

After running;

$ sudo iptables -F

both;
https://localhost:10000
https://localhost:20000

are working now.

Any advise howto disable modules on Usermin only allowing users changing password, languages, etc.

TIA

B.R.
satimis