Webmin Install
When installing Webmin with the setup.sh script, note that it takes a second optional (but HIGHLY recommended) parameter which is the installation directory. If omitted webmin will be configured to run from the directory that you have untarred it into, which may be undesireable.
The best installation method is as follows:
bob@ubones:~/webmin-1.200 $ sudo ./setup.sh /usr/local/webmin
Then, follow the defaults and you will have it installed into /usr/local/webmin instead of /home/bob/webmin-1.200
Note: If you specify a directory that is NOT /usr/share/webmin (like I did above) then you will need to modify the webmin init script (/etc/init.d/webmin) to change the DAEMON setting to point to the location of miniserv.pl (that is the webmin main controller script - yeah, it’s written in perl).
I was givin the task to setup a system at my school to allow students to sign up to a program, and then develop a website… having that website being allowed to be viewed on our network.
I found webmin and usermin and thought that I had the solution and I think there may be a way to get it to work (in the file manager students can just create a new file and then instert the html, though some kind of script to allow them to make a website like geocities or freewebs.com would be very NICE!)
I need help allowing users’ files to be view in such a format as:
http://216.186.36.50:20000/username/file.html
I’m not sure HOW to allow this though.
Also if anyone knows of any scripts that I can use for free (I’m doing this for free) that would allow users to make a site on the server (It’s running a version of linux redhat that I installed) that would be awesome!
Finally.. is there anyway to allow people to sign up for an account? So that I do not have to set up every single user…
Thanks
Brian
krameb@touchet.org