Hey ok i was running a server before then all of a sudden something went wrong and my computer was having trouble seeing my hard drive so i just reinstalled it but anyways i want to install webmin using software installer and it said that everything is already installed??? but i know for a fact that it isent installed i used software installer to check to make sure and sure enough it wasnt i tried http://localhost:10000 and nothing it said port 10000 is closed or something since this isent working what file do i modify so i can set up my server do i edit httpd.conf commonhttpd.conf or do i add the virtual host under vhosts.conf??? Please help me Thanx


Matt3333

What distro are you using? Did you install it when you re-installed the OS? If you go to the directory where you unpacked the webmin tarball there should be a file named setup.sh. Just execute that file and it will setup webmin for you. I have re-installed webmin be for with no problem.

Mandrake 8.2 no i didnt install it with the os i downloaded the rpm file and installed it with that should i try the tarball file ???

No, just go to where webmin was install. Do a whereis webmin at the command line. Mine on slack is in the /etc/webmin. All I have to do to start it is /etc/webmin/start.

When i type whereis webmin i get webmin: it doesnt tell me where it is???? i looked in /etc/webmin and there isent a dir webmin i dunno where else it would be?????it doesnt appear to be installed to me????

Matt3333

If whereis isn't finding it, then most likely it's not installed. So either use a tarball to install, or just force the RPM.

Cool

Ok i tried to force the rpm but it wont let me???? so i tired to install the tarballs in extracted it then i took a look at the readme and it says to exec the setup.sh file so i went to shell type exec /home/matt/webmin-1.090/setup.sh and it starts up then it just cloes shell and nothing happens??? anyone know y this is happeing?? Thanx

Matt3333

Are you root when you type that? If so, is it possible that you don't have the complete download?

Cool

Ya i tried it both root and as a user and same thing happens hmmm i dont think that i made sure when i downloaded it that it was the biggest file cuz theres 2 different tarball files theres min. and theres normal one and i downloaded the normal one i dunno???? could u maybe point in the right direction to setingup apache without webmin??? i know i have to add a virtual host but does it get added to httpd.conf or commonhttpd.conf and or httpd-perl.conf when i type in apachectl update it updates httpd-perl and i didnt even install that maybe that has something to do with webmin not working cuz before i didnt have that installed???? please help me and if i do add it in to httpd.conf do i put <VirtualHost xx.xxx.xx.xx> ServerName www.domain.com ServerPath /domain </VirtualHost>???? or do i put something else please help with this Thank-you for responding

Matt3333

Grab the RPM from your install CD and force the install, even if it says it's already installed, install it again (won't cause any harm).

Cool

I'm not sure about whereis, but with locate, you have to do an updatedb first before it will locate it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Regards

I always have to use https://myserver:1000/ to get the webmin login. I don't know if this helps but something to try.

that is supposed to be https://myserver:10000/ (fotgot a 0)