How To Install Webmin on an Ubuntu Cloud Server

Published on May 8, 2013

By Faraz Fallahi

How To Install Webmin on an Ubuntu Cloud Server

About Webmin

Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing, and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files, like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

Step One—Root Login

Once you know your IP address and root password, login as the main user, root.

ssh root@123.45.67.890

Step Two—Add Webmin to APT repository

Edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file on your system and add the following lines.

Open the file with nano:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Press [Page Down] button on the keyboard to reach to the end of file. (or press Left ALt+/)

Then paste these two lines below:

deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib
deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib

Save changes with CTRL+O and exit with CTRL+X.

Step Three—Install Webmin’s GPG key

You should also fetch and install Webmin’s GPG key in which the repository is signed and with the commands:

cd /root
wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
apt-key add jcameron-key.asc

Step Four—Install Webmin

You will now be able to install with the commands:

apt-get update
apt-get install webmin

Step Five—Login to Webmin

Open your browser and go to http://your_droplet_ip:10000/

You can now login as root with your root password, or as any user who can use sudo to run commands as root.

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neilsweeney

May 16, 2013

Might be worth mentioning that if you created a root user using a SSH key and thus don’t have a password then SSH ing and run the following command

sudo passwd root

Follow the prompts and then you should be able to login to webmin.

Kamal Nasser

May 17, 2013

@Neil Sweeney: That is correct, thanks! :]

kevinthulin

August 1, 2013

Hello,

I am really a newbie on linux so here is my question: I am using ubuntu 13.04 since I need php 5.4.x

And webadmin would make alot of things easier since im bad at linux.

So, do I need to install LAMP then install webadmin, or should I just install webadmin right away on my new vps?

kevinthulin

August 2, 2013

also, does that tutorial work on ubuntu 13?

Kamal Nasser

August 2, 2013

I believe webmin installs Apache for you. I don’t know if it can be installed on an Ubuntu 13.04, but you can try it and if it doesn’t work, you can rebuild your droplet from a 12.04 image.

kevinthulin

August 2, 2013

Thank you.

It works on 13.04 tested yesterday :) But I have changed to 12.04 since its LTS, so just made a lamp install and upgraded to php 5.4 using ppa:ondrej/php5-oldstable.

Anyways do you think I should clear my install, and install webmin right away then try to upgrade the php version using ondrej? It worked fine yesterday on 13.04 when I first installed lamp then webmin, still maybe thats not the right way to do it.

Thanks

Kamal Nasser

August 2, 2013

@kevin_thulin: If it’s working fine, I don’t think you need to redo it again from scratch. Keep it this way for a while and see how it goes.

mrgsmith

October 12, 2013

If im using digitalocean’s lamp stack, what’s my default user/pass for sql?

Kamal Nasser

October 12, 2013

@garnet: root:password, you should change it immediately once you log in (read the MOTD when you log in via SSH or run <code>cat /etc/motd.tail</code>