How To Install Webmin on CentOS

In this tutorial we will learn How To Install Webmin on CentOS, lets go-

Webmin is a free control Panel for managing VPS. Webmin is a web based interface which is used to manage VPS web hosting server. With the help of webmin you can setup user account, apache, dns & file sharing and other actions. Webmin very suitable for beginners who do not know much about the unix or linux command line. For future reference, I will show you a steps to setup on Webmin 1.720 on CentOS.

Install Webmin on CentOS

Step 1. First setup webmin using Yum

#nano /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo

[Webmin]
name=Webmin Distribution Neutral
#baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum
mirrorlist=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/mirrorlist
enabled=1

We’ll need to install webmin GPG key now, using following command.

 rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc

Now, update the repositorys:

 yum check-update

Step 2. Install webmin using rpm command.

 yum install webmin -y

Step 3. Start Webmin.

 /etc/init.d/webmin start

Now execute following commands to make sure that Webmin starts automatically every time you reboot your server:

 chkconfig webmin on

Once Webmin has finished installing you should be load the following address in your browser. http://youripaddress:10000

install webmin in centos

Congratulation’s! You have successfully installed Webmin. Thanks for using this tutorial for installing Webmin free web hosting control panel  on CentOS system. For additional help or useful information, we recommend you to check the official Webmin web site.

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