Webmin

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What is Webmin

A web-based interface for system administration for Unix or Linux. Setup user accounts, DNS, file sharing, etc.

Set up Webmin on Alpine Linux

This document will be a quick c/p guide to setup webmin and dansguardian module on Alpine linux. We assume you have dansguardian installed and running. What we will install is the following:

  • Perl
  • Webmin 1.510
  • Dansguardian 0.7.0beta1b module (for webmin)


Installing Perl

Install Perl

   apk add perl


Installing and configuring Webmin

Install webmin

Download

 cd /etc/
 wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.510.tar.gz

Unpack

 gunzip webmin-1.510.tar.gz
 tar xvf webmin-1.510.tar 
  

Folder

mv webmin-1.510 webmin

Setup

 cd webmin
 ./setup.sh
   Config file directory [/etc/webmin]: enter
   Log file directory [/var/webmin]: /var/log/webmin
   Full path to perl: enter
   Web server port (default 10000): enter (or other port number)
   Login name (default admin): admin
   Login password: admin-password
   Password again: admin-password
   Start Webmin at boot time (y/n): y

Browse

   http://IP_NUMBER:10000 (or the ip number you chose)

To add dansguardian module

Download module

   cd /tmp
   wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dgwebminmodule/dgwebmin-devel/0.7.0beta1b/dgwebmin-0.7.0beta1b.wbm

Browse to http://IP_NUMBER:10000 (or the ip number you chose)

   Click on: Webmin / Webmin Configuration / Webmin Modules
   In the Install Module box select install from: From local file, click on ... button
   Then when the explorer box open, go to /tmp and select the dgwebmin-0.7.0beta1b.wbm file, click ok
   Back in the Webmin Modules click on Install Module button, and that’s all.
   Click on: Servers / DansGuardian Web Content to configure and use dansguardian module.

Note: Webmin Modules you can add more modules, from “Standard module from www.webmin.com” or “Third party module from”, etc.


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