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Sunday, 25 September 2005

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Keep your knowledge with OWL!
"Step 1: Suse 9.3 Installation"
"Step 2: Webmin installation and configuration" toc="1"
"Step 3: Apache2 configuration"
"InstallingOWL" toc="1"
"Step 5: MySQL configuration and OWL database installation" toc="1"
"Installing and configuring anti-virus software ClamAV" toc="1"
"Step 7: Get OWL ready to work" toc="1"
"Troubleshooting and additional help" toc="1"

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Step 2: Webmin installation and configuration

It is time to get Webmin running. Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for UNIX. Using any browser that supports tables and forms (and Java for the File Manager module), you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, MySQL, file sharing and so on.

Webmin consists of a simple web server, and a number of CGI programs which directly update system files like /etc/inetd.conf and /etc/passwd. The web server and all CGI programs are written in Perl version 5, and use no non-standard Perl modules. Please get more information about Webmin here:

http://www.webmin.com/

Honestly, we really do not need Webmin to get everything running, but it is a wonderful tool for a LINUX system administrator and it will help us to configure Apache and MySQL but also to administer the database.

Please download webmin from the URL mentioned above and store in your home directory. Get root permissions and install the rpm package like this:

su
rpm –i webmin-1.220-1.noarch.rpm

After the installation please check if webmin is already running:

/etc/init.d/webmin status

If not, please start it like this:

/etc/init.d/webmin start

You can now access the Webmin interface with your favourite browser using the following URLs:

http://localhost:10000 or https://IP-address:10000

Tip: If you are not able to use the secure connection via ssl, please check if you have the package perl-Net_SSLeay installed on your system.

Please login as root with a valid password.