Install Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) Server

May 23, 2016 · Server ·

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Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix. Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS, file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage a system from the console or remotely.

We have already discusses about how to install ubuntu 16.04 LAMP server

Now you need to install webmin from APT repository

sudo sh -c ‘echo "deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/webmin.list'
wget -qO -- http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc | sudo apt-key add --
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install webmin

Access webmin

Now you need to go to https://serverip:10000

Ubuntu in particular don't allow logins by the root user by default. However, the user created at system installation time can use sudo to switch to root. Webmin will allow any user who has this sudo capability to login with full root privileges.

Once you logged in you should see similar to the following screen

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7 Comments to “Install Webmin on Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus) Server”

  1. Jan Busk says:
    July 20, 2016 at 7:05 am

    Thanks for the howto! Nice to get upgrades via the apt. I had a little snag though. This line did not work for me:
    wget -qO — http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc | sudo apt-key add —

    I changed it to:
    wget -qO – http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc | sudo apt-key add –
    and now it worked.

  2. jam says:
    July 27, 2016 at 9:48 am

    I used to run webmin without problem in 14.10.
    I moved to 16.04 but I am unable to get webmin working.
    Everything is correct in installation, but, under the browser I get errors like “ERR_SSL_PROTOCOL_ERROR”
    or
    “An error occurred during a connection to localhost:10000. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG”
    depending on the browser.
    Thanks for your help

  3. Jamie says:
    August 1, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    Does work sadly:
    gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

    When running
    wget -qO — http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc | sudo apt-key add —

  4. Daryl says:
    November 7, 2016 at 8:15 pm

    Jamie run
    wget -q http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add –

    and this will get the key.

  5. Pedro Braconnot says:
    November 14, 2016 at 12:42 am

    In my case I had to start webmin server to be able to acces it in the browser for the first time with the command:
    /etc/webmin/start

  6. Rixta Lu says:
    January 14, 2017 at 12:57 am

    Whats the command to actually open webmin or how to open browser or point https://the_ip:10000

    All the tutorial seems to stop there…

  7. ruchi says:
    January 16, 2017 at 10:39 am

    the_ip : This is your server ip address for example if your server ip address 192.168.2.10

    you can access https://192.168.2.10:10000

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