Install Virtualmin

When purchasing a new VPS, one wonders how you will manage it for your needs.

Especially if you are planning to use it for website hosting; managing it can be more tricky. The best option is to use some hosting panels on your VPS. There are numerous paid-for ones like cPanel, Plesk, DirectAdmin or free ones like CentOS Web Panel, CyberPanel. Virtualmin is an open source Webmin based robust web server application which is widely used for web hosting purposes. It has a website control panel for domain hosting purposes and has the ability to create and manage web sites. With Virtualmin, you can configure your server easily via the web panel with the settings you need, add or remove server-side plugins etc. For example, you can easily install WHMCS, phpMyAdmin, Django or RoundCube.

Easily install Virtualmin; which is described in this article on one of our Linux VPS packages:

Now, Lets’s see how you can install it to your VPS

Installation

First, we need to update server-side packages and install nano;

If you are using RHEL / CentOS operating systems use the code below;

yum -y update
yum -y install nano

If you are using Ubuntu / Debian operating systems use the code below;

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
apt-get install nano

We should verify the hostname;

hostname -f

hostname error

if you get the following error you should edit the hosts;

nano /etc/hosts

After editing and saving it, you should recheck and see the hostname prefix at the output of hostname -f command again.

Now we need to be sure that we disabled SELinux ( except for CentOS, SELinux may not exist, you can pass this section );

nano /etc/sysconfig/selinux

The setting should be SELINUX = disabled ;

Now we can move on installation Virtualmin;

wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh
sudo /bin/sh install.shnano /etc/sysconfig/selinux

Proceed by selecting ‘y’.

Then we will enter the hostname, just write your hostname and press enter. For example, server.virtualservers.co.za

The setup process will continue with the installation of the required plugins. As soon as it is finished, you should restart your server:

reboot

service iptables stop
iptables -F
iptables -X
iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 10000 -j ACCEPT
service iptables save
service iptables start

How to Use

Accessing the Virtualmin panel:

https://ipadress:10000

Virtualmin Login

The login user is root, and the password is the root password you specified during your order. 

If you want to change the virtualmin root password;

In the first screen of our panel, the Post-Installation Wizard screen will come up. On this screen, we can configure our server and move on by clicking next. For example, SpamAssassin, setting ram for MySQL, determining the MySQL root password and etc. If you do not have any information all about these, you can continue with the default configuration by pressing Continue next;
When the configuration process is complete, we can move on re-checking the settings;

Now let’s add a virtual server (it is a virtual vhost). This host will be defined with a domain name. Indeed, we are just opening a hosting account. Now we click Create Virtual Server;

Now we will fill the red areas according your domainname and password.

We create a hosting account now. If you missed something during hosting creation step, like virtual server details, assigning wrong a quota, forgot to allow MySQL or something similar you can return to the configuration by clicking Return the virtual servers details.

You can start to upload files under your account put your domain live by just forwarding your nameserver.

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