Comments on: Ubuntu Server:Install GUI and Webmin in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) Guide

By: wtf

wtf — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:38:56 +0000

but I can’t login, im sure pass and everything is correct…

By: HT

HT — Wed, 18 May 2011 20:20:05 +0000

Thanks! this was VERY helpful!

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:52:37 +0000

This worked great for me. Thank you.

By: ken

ken — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:59:48 +0000

webmin will not accept my normal ubuntu username and password.. how can I log into webmin on ubuntu Lucid Lynx

By: rexlands

rexlands — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:08:14 +0000

i cant login my username and password i used in installing is not working after i have install the gui interface

By: jebahar allwin

jebahar allwin — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:30:25 +0000

hello, I’ve got both ubuntu server 9.10CD n 9.10 ubuntu desktop CD too & in my office I can’t use the internet! So I’d like to know if A gui can be installed without an internet connection. thanks in advance

By: bigad

bigad — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:58:17 +0000

hello ,
i got ubuntu server 9.10 CD and 9.10 ubuntu desktop CD . how can i install GUI interface with out net connection on ubuntu server?

By: johnny

johnny — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:39:54 +0000

worked great. everything works like a charm on this old Dell Optiplex

there is life after windows

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 19:45:31 +0000

works on ubuntu 9.04 also if you would like to use xubuntu instead of ubuntu or kubuntu then use this

sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop

By: uzair

uzair — Wed, 27 May 2009 06:24:18 +0000

Hey.

I came here hoping for a working solution since there seems to be a slight bug with using Webmin, and specifically Virtualmin.

Setup and run Virtualmin, it gives you the following error:

Failed to save enabled features : The Suexec command on your system is configured to only run scripts under /var/www, but the Virtualmin base directory is /home. CGI and PHP scripts run as domain owners will not be executed

It seems that if you install Webmin from their install script (http://www.webmin.com/vinstall.html) you it’ll install successfully, however installing Apache the usual way on Ubuntu installs a version of mod_suexec that doesn’t work with Webmin.

Perhaps it’d be beneficial to let the people know to just install using the install script…then again, the install script states that it’ll only work with specific OS’s only. 8.10 isn’t on there, however 8.04 is.

By: richp

richp — Thu, 14 May 2009 14:11:39 +0000

Excellent guides on this site. I download JJ, installed the lamps, ssh, gnome, webmin and had it all up and running in a couple of hours. Pretty good considering the marketing dept asked the evening before ‘could you do this over the next couple of weeks’, their webdevs are on it now….
Now I just need to install the netbackup client, should have done that before I moved it from my bench to the sever room.

By: usman yahaya

usman yahaya — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:08:47 +0000

i think i will try that trick, i hope i will solve my problem too.

By: Nay Myo Win

Nay Myo Win — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:56:03 +0000

i know how to install webmin now. But how to configure Mail, DNS, WebProxy and file server by using webmin??

PLease show me with screen shots in details step by step.

By: Tark

Tark — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 06:37:44 +0000

I have the same question as Svavark -

Now it boots up into GUI always now. Is there a way for it to boot up in bash only?

By: Svavark

Svavark — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:31:09 +0000

I have set up a Lamp Server. But the Ideal for me is to be able to start the gui (xstart) while I work om the server but to be able to “exit out” of the GUI when I am not configuring the server. freeing up memory and other resources.

I read about this (somewhere) and installed the gui but now my (test) server allways boots up in the GUI.

Any help?
Svavar

By: itics

itics — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:16:18 +0000

Hurm.. i got some query here…
can i use this documentation for xubuntu? =_=

if cannot, do you guys have any other documentation for me to refer…
seem hard to find the right documentation

By: Andrii

Andrii — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:21:17 +0000

Thanks a lot. Worked smoothly for me. Useful tool.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:32:58 +0000

Thanks for that, works great!

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:09:55 +0000

Hi..Thanks for your excellent instructions. Everything installs fine, but installing standard modules doesn’t work.

When I try to add one of the standard modules via Webmin Config menu the module appears to install fine, but the new menu option remains under Unused module and gives ‘The [module name] could not be found on your system. Maybe it is not installed, or your [ ... ] module configuration is incorrect.

Please help!

(Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Server and Webmin 1.450)

By: admin

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:14:56 +0000

@Gavin

I think your problem is understand the concept of inbound connections to a server and tunneling ports… i’ll try to explain it in a nutshell

Ok - this is the setup i am going to look at for the connection:

Computer---- home-router1(NAT) ------ Internet ----- home-router2(NAT) ----- Server

You want a connection from Computer to server through all these other things. Well - this is not possible like this. First thing to do is to enable port forwarding on home-router2 (the one in front of the Server). In fact, you want to forward port 22. Why 22 ? well, because that is the ssh port which we are going to utilize.
But to be able to test this better, it would make sense to have the ssh server up and running and being able to connect internally. So, firstly, install the openssh-server (You have already installed if not follow this step)
sudo apt-get install openssh-server

once that is up, try to access the server via ssh. once that works internally, try to setup the port forwarding on the router and then try to access the server from the internet (you will need to know your external ip for that - you can find it out at http://www.whatismyip.com). Don’t try from your internal network to access that address - it will not work as most home-routers do not forward internal traffic. You will need to do this from the internet.

Ok… so now you should have an accessable ssh-server from the internet. The next step is to get hostname that always points to your server (as your external ip will most likely change every 24h). Explaning that is a little beyond this, but search google for setting up dyndns.org or no-ip.org in ubuntu or try this http://www.ubuntugeek.com/update-ip-addresses-at-dynamic-dns-services-using-ddclient.html. there is plenty of documentation out there about it. You can use no-ip.org…

Hopefully you have the name now - now the last step - forwarding the port. For that, you connect to the ssh server with port forwarding enabled… in linux the command would be:

ssh user@myserver.no-ip.org -L 10000:localhost:10000

This connects to your server (name is myserver.no-ip.org - change this to your real name or your ip) with the username user. The -L bit is the crutial port. It forwards the localport so your server and then connects to the localhost there on port 10000. Setting it up like this, and then logging into the remote machine. Just leave the console after you have logged in and open a browser… and try to connect to localhost:10000 - that should work.