Install Webmin on ubuntu server 16.04 x64 | setup webmin admin panel

Webmin is web based administration tool develop for managing linux server. Webmin is a control panel for server administrator to setup different services and that too from from the browser. Here we will install webmin on ubuntu server 16.04 x64.

You can delete the lock file with the following command if find the error of directory or file lock on
 apt-get or apt install:

sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock

You may also need to delete the lock file in the cache directory

sudo rm /var/cache/apt/archives/lock
sudo rm /var/lib/dpkg/lock

After that, try again instll.

Step 1: Install Webmin

install required packages

sudo apt install python apt-show-versions libapt-pkg-perl libauthen-pam-perl libio-pty-perl libnet-ssleay-perl

download and install webmin

cd /tmp && curl -L -O http://www.webmin.com/download/deb/webmin-current.deb

finally install webmin

sudo dpkg -i webmin-current.deb

Step 2: Accessing Webmin

https://localhost:10000

If you’re coming from a remote location, you must add the IP address to the allowed list… you can do that by running the commands below to open Webmin default configuration file.

sudo nano /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

Then adding a new line to allow a specific IP or subnet.

allow=192.168.X.X
or
allow=192.168.X.0/24
for whole subnet

Save the file… you should good to go for access Webmin

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