Install webmin on Debian

Webmin :

Webmin is a wonderful web based tool to administrate linux system. It consumes low RAM and very much stable than other administration tools. It helps to demonstrate a server easily. However, recent version can also run in windows operating system. In webmin WebUI control panel, you can easily control almost everything in your server without knowing bunch of Linux codes. Moreover, if you have only 128 MB linux server (VPS/Dedicated), you can install and use webmin easily without having any trouble to operate your server.

 

Requirement for webmin:

In the following tutorial I am going to show you how to install webmin in Debian 6 32 bit VPS. You may have already acknowledged that Debian 6 32 bit OS is stable enough in low RAM VPS server. That's why I encourage people to install Debian 6 OS on their system if they can't afford to buy high configured server. However, you can install any other OS too if you want. You can use webmin in almost any OS.

Tutorial:

1. Login in your server with root access. Then execute the following command to install required dependencies for webmin

apt-get install perl libnet-ssleay-perl openssl libauthen-pam-perl libpam-runtime libio-pty-perl apt-show-versions python

2. Download the deb version of webmin in your debian server

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.680_all.deb

3. Now install webmin by executing the following command

dpkg -i webmin_1.680_all.deb

Wait a bit. Webmin will be installed in a few minutes. After that, you can browse to webmin control panel by going this url https://<your-server-ip>:10000