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.

Note: Webmin has frequent security updates and patches. Please watch the webmin security alert page.

Tip: Consider using ACF (Alpine Configuration Framework) to get a web interface for Alpine.

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 1.990
Dansguardian 0.7.1 module (for webmin)

For more info about appropriate module: https://www.webmin.com/tgz.html

Installing Perl with ssl module

Install Perl

apk add perl perl-net-ssleay

Installing and configuring Webmin

Install webmin

Download & Unpack

cd /opt wget -O - https://github.com/webmin/webmin/archive/refs/tags/1.991.tar.gz | tar -xzf -

Folder

mv webmin-1.991 webmin

Setup

cd webmin ./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin

Note: Will ask distro, Alpine not listed. The closest distro might be Gentoo ES4.0 -- use your best judgement

    Config file directory [/etc/webmin]: enter
    Log file directory [/var/webmin]: /var/log/webmin
    Full path to perl: enter
    Operating system: 84 // 84 must be Gentoo
    Version: ES4.0
    Web server port (default 10000): enter (or other port number)
    Login name (default admin): admin
    Login password: admin-password
    Password again: admin-password
    Use SSL (y/n): n
    Start Webmin at boot time (y/n): y

Browse

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

To add dansguardian module

Link to module: https://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/dgwebminmodule/dgwebmin-stable/0.7/dgwebmin-0.7.1.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, enter link in: From HTTP or FTP URL text field and press Install Module below
(Alternatively, can click on 🌐 button in Third party module from form and select from list)
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.