Installing Webmin to a CentOS VPS

Installing Webmin control panel for your CentOS based Linux VPS is very easy, just a few steps done as follows, logged in as ‘root’ on your VPS:

1) Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo with the contents:

[Webmin]
name=Webmin Distribution Neutral
#baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum
mirrorlist=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/mirrorlist
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0


2) Run the following to install the important SSL Dependencies for Webmin:

yum -y install perl-Net-SSLeay

3) Install Webmin itself, which will pre-configure itself so you can login to Webmin as the ‘root’ user, with the current root user’s password:

yum -y install webmin

4) It will run Webmin, so you can then login as ‘root’ (with the existing root user’s password) at https://your-VPS-IP-address:10000

These instructions are pretty much as per Webmin’s site itself says too.

As always, if you’re a Network Presence VPS/VDS customer, please contact us if you have problems or need help with this software install & use.