install webmin centos 7

Webmin is a web based tool for Linux, it helps to manage the services like DNS, DHCP, MySQL server, PostgrSQL and other networking services. It also helps to manage the user, disk, file system, process, packages, etc.. This post will guide you to install Webmin on CentOS 7.

Create repo for webmin.

vi /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo

Place the following content.

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

Download webmin gpg key.

wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc

Import key.

rpm --import jcameron-key.asc

Install webmin.

yum -y install webmin

Start the webmin.

/etc/init.d/webmin start

Auto start webmin at system startup.

chkconfig webmin on

Webmin listens on port no 10000, allow it on firewall.

firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-port=10000/tcp
firewall-cmd --reload

Now open up a browser and visit http://your-ip-address:10000, you will be asked to enter username and password. Use root username and password.

That’s All.