Last updated on January 7th, 2020 at 10:42 pm
Want to administer your CentOS 8 system from web interface? Well, follow through this guide to learn how to install Webmin on CentOS 8. Webmin is a web-based system administration tool for Unix-like systems.
Install Webmin on CentOS 8
There are two ways in which Webmin can be installed on CentOS 8:
- Via Webmin RPM package
- Via Webmin YUM repository
Installing Webmin via RPM
Run system update
dnf update
Download Webmin RPM binary installer from the downloads page.
wget https://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.930-1.noarch.rpm
Install the required perl dependencies.
dnf install perl perl-Net-SSLeay openssl perl-Encode-Detect
Next, install Webmin.
rpm -ivh webmin-1.930-1.noarch.rpm
... Operating system is CentOS Linux Updating / installing... 1:webmin-1.930-1 ################################# [100%] Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://centos8.kifarunix-demo.com:10000/ as root with your root password.
Well, if you want to deal with required dependencies automatically;
dnf install https://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.930-1.noarch.rpm
Or if you have download the binary package;
dnf localinstall webmin-1.930-1.noarch.rpm
Install Webmin via Webmin YUM Repository
Webmin can also be installed on CentOS 8 via the Wen YUM repos. Run the command below to create Webmin repository on CentOS 8.
cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo [Webmin] name=Webmin Distribution Neutral mirrorlist=https://download.webmin.com/download/yum/mirrorlist enabled=1 EOF
Next, install the repository signing key.
wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc rpm --import jcameron-key.asc
Run system update
dnf update
Install Webmin
dnf install webmin
Dependencies resolved. ======================================================================================================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ======================================================================================================================================================= Installing: webmin noarch 1.930-1 Webmin 22 M Installing dependencies: perl-Encode-Detect x86_64 1.01-28.el8 AppStream 90 k Transaction Summary ======================================================================================================================================================= Install 2 Packages Total download size: 22 M Installed size: 79 M Is this ok [y/N]: y
... Installing : webmin-1.930-1.noarch 2/2 Running scriptlet: webmin-1.930-1.noarch 2/2 Webmin install complete. You can now login to https://centos8.kifarunix-demo.com:10000/ as root with your root password. ...
The default administrative user for webmin is the system root user.
Accessing Webmin
You can access webmin via the address https://<server-hostname>:10000/.
If FirewallD is running, open this port on the current active zone to allow remote access.
To get the active firewalld zone;
firewall-cmd --get-active-zones libvirt interfaces: virbr0
firewall-cmd --zone=libvirt --add-port=10000/tcp --permanent
firewall-cmd --reload
You can now access Webmin from the browser. For the first time login, ignore the private SSL/TLS certificate warning and proceed to webmin.
Upon successful login, you will land on Webmin interface.
That is all on how to install Webmin on CentOS 8. You can now run your system administration tasks from Webmin.
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