Webmin

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Webmin

Version 1.290 working on a production server
Developed by Jamie Cameron and the Webmin community.[1]
Initial release October 5, 1997 (version 0.1)
Stable release 1.420  (May 25, 2008) [+/−]
Preview release 1.412  (May 13, 2008) [+/−]
Written in Perl
OS "The best supported systems at the moment are Solaris, Linux (Red Hat in particular) and FreeBSD"[2] and other supported OSes.
Available in English, Catalan 93%, partial translations
Genre Control panel
License BSD-like licence
Website http://www.webmin.com/

Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for OpenSolaris, Linux and other Unix-like systems. With it you can configure many operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services, configuration files etc., as well as modify and control many OpenSource apps, such as the Apache HTTP Server, PHP, MySQL etc.

Webmin is largely based on Perl, running as its own process and web server. It defaults to TCP port 10000 for communicating, and can be configured to use SSL if OpenSSL is installed with additional required Perl Modules.

It is built around modules, which have an interface to the configuration files and the Webmin server. This makes it easy to add new functionality without much work. Due to Webmin's modular design, it would be possible for anyone who is interested to write plugins for desktop configuration.

Webmin also allows for controlling many machines through a single interface, or seamless login on other webmin hosts on the same subnet or LAN.

Webmin is primarily coded by Australian Jamie Cameron[1]. Webmin is released under the BSD license.

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[edit] Related software

Webmin can be expanded by installing modules, which can be custom made. Aside from this, there are two other major projects that extend the functionality of webmin.

1. Usermin presents and controls a subset of the features available in Webmin, such as webmail and other user-level tasks, rather than administrator-level tasks.

2. Virtualmin, which is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage many domains and is available in both Open Source and commercial versions for a nominal price. (Compared to Plesk or cPanel, Virtualmin is much less expensive while still offering many of the same features).

[edit] Footnotes and References

  1. ^ a b Introduction to Webmin. Official Webmin website. Accessed 11-Feb-2007.
  2. ^ Supported Operating Systems. Official Webmin website. Accessed 11-Feb-2007.

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