How to Install Webmin 1.580 on RHEL 6/CentOS 6 Using RPM

Webmin is a freeware program that provide web-based interface for system administration and system configuration tool for administrators. With Webmin you can setup user accounts, DNS, file sharing and etc. In this post, i will show how to install Webmin on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 (RHEL 6) server using RPM version. This steps may also working on other versions such as CentOS 5.1, CentOS 5.2, CentOS 5.3, CentOS 5.4, CentOS 5.5, CentOS 5.6, CentOS 5.7, CentOS 6.x, RHEL 5.x and RHEL 6.x.

1. Download required RPM file here (http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/)

[root@rhel6 ~]# wget http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm

or

[root@rhel6 ~]# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm
[root@rhel6 ~]# wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm
--2012-03-25 20:03:28--  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm
Resolving prdownloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.59
Connecting to prdownloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.580/webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm [following]
--2012-03-25 20:03:34--  http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.580/webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm
Resolving downloads.sourceforge.net... 216.34.181.59
Connecting to downloads.sourceforge.net|216.34.181.59|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: http://cdnetworks-kr-1.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.580/webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm [following]
--2012-03-25 20:03:45--  http://cdnetworks-kr-1.dl.sourceforge.net/project/webadmin/webmin/1.580/webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm
Resolving cdnetworks-kr-1.dl.sourceforge.net... 211.39.135.162
Connecting to cdnetworks-kr-1.dl.sourceforge.net|211.39.135.162|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 17112780 (16M) [application/x-rpm]
Saving to: âwebmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpmâ

100%[==========================================================>] 17,112,780  49.4K/s   in 20m 53s

2012-03-25 20:24:43 (13.3 KB/s) - âwebmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpmâ

Install RPM version of Webmin as below :

[root@rhel6 ~]# rpm -Uvh webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm
warning: webmin-1.580-1.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 11f63c51: NOKEY
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
Operating system is Redhat Enterprise Linux
   1:webmin                 ########################################### [100%]
Webmin install complete. You can now login to http://rhel6:10000/
as root with your root password.

Start Webmin :

[root@rhel6 ~]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/webmin start

To login Webmin :
You must enter a username and password to login to the Webmin server
http://serveripaddress:10000/

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