Install Virtualmin on CentOs, Red Hat, Fedora VPS Server
September 26, 2015
Virtualmin is a module that sits on top of Webmin, that gives usefulness to non-root clients to deal with their common hosting accounts.Virtualmin deal with hositng environment.. Permitting you to arrange effortlessly a wide range of domain with distinctive email, web, db and so forth.
Virtualmin Prerequisites :
- Fresh Install VPS server of CentOs , Red Hat or Fedora , CloudLinux
- Hostname should be set as in FQDN ( Fully qualified domain name ) like virtualmin.example.com and that domain proper point into server IP.
Hostname Check and update on Centos 7 / RHEL 7 / CloudLinux 7 or Fedora :
# hostnamectl
To set Hostname :
# hostnamectl set-hostname virtualmin.example.com
Now hostname shoul be updated on /etc/hostname file .
Hostname Check and update on Centos 7 / RHEL 7 / CloudLinux 7 or Fedora :
- Perl should be installed on server, run below command to install perl packages.
# yum install perl
Download and Installation of VirtualMin :
Virtualmin can be download from official website of webmin . You can download Virtualmin for different linux and debian based system from below website .
http://www.webmin.com/vdownload.html
Here we have find lot of download and installation method available on official website.Here we are following installation script method for installation of webmin.
Download the installation script .
#cd /opt
# wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh
Run the Installer :
Now execute the installer of virtualmin .
# sh install.sh After execute the shell script, it will ask for accept license agreement. Press “Y” to accept license agreement and Enter to continue.
Checking for Perl found Perl at /bin/perl Welcome to the Virtualmin GPL installer, version 1.1.2 WARNING: The installation is quite stable and functional when run on a freshly installed supported Operating System. If you have existing websites, email users, or if you manually installed Virtualmin via a Webmin 'wbm' module, you are likely to run into problems. Please read the Virtualmin Administrators Guide before proceeding if your system is not a freshly installed and supported OS. This script is not intended to update your system! It should only be used to perform your initial Virtualmin installation. If you have previously run the Virtualmin installer, you can perform upgrades and updates from within Virtualmin itself, or using your system's package manager. Once Virtualmin is installed, you never need to run this script again. The systems currently supported by install.sh are: CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux 7 on x86_64 CentOS and RHEL 5-6 on i386 and x86_64 Scientific Linux 6 on i386 and x86_64 Debian 6, 7, and 8 on i386 and amd64 Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 12.04 LTS, and 14.04 LTS on i386 and amd64 Amazon Linux 2012.03 on i386 and x86_64 FreeBSD 7.0 and 8 on i386 and amd64 If your OS is not listed above, this script will fail. More details about the systems supported by the script can be found here: http://www.virtualmin.com/os-support.html Continue? (y/n) y
Virtualmin Access :
When installation will be done , Now you are ready to use virtualmin console.You can access virtualmin through like this url , as I have done for public ip , so I am hiding my public ip and showing through internal ip.
http://192.168.1.100:10000/ Or https://www.techtransit.org:10000/
You can login thorough root user and password, After login you can configure your virtualmin post installation wizard.
Now you will see after login Virtualmin control panel tab in top left corner ,where you can manage all the VPS and related services.