Webmin
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 Version 1.420 working on a production server |
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| Developer(s) | Jamie Cameron and the Webmin community[1] |
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| Initial release | October 5, 1997 (version 0.1) |
| Stable release | 1.580 (January 21, 2012) [±] |
| Preview release | [±] |
| Written in | Perl |
| Operating system | "The best supported systems at the moment are Solaris, Linux (Red Hat in particular) and FreeBSD" and other supported OSes[2] |
| Available in | English, Catalan, partial translations[3] |
| Type | Control panel |
| License | BSD-like license |
| Website | http://www.webmin.com/ |
Webmin is a web-based system configuration tool for Unix-like systems, although recent versions can also be installed and run on Windows.[4] With it, it is possible to configure operating system internals, such as users, disk quotas, services or configuration files, as well as modify and control open source apps, such as the Apache HTTP Server, PHP or MySQL.
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. Due to Webmin's modular design, it is 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] and 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:
- 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.
- Virtualmin, which is a domain hosting and web site control panel, which gives the ability to create and manage domains.
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[edit] References
- ^ a b "Introduction to Webmin". Webmin. http://www.webmin.com/intro.html. Retrieved 11 February 2007.
- ^ "Supported Systems". Webmin. http://www.webmin.com/support.html. Retrieved 11 February 2007.
- ^ "Supported Languages". Webmin. http://www.webmin.com/lang.html.
- ^ "Installing on Windows". Webmin. http://www.webmin.com/windows.html.
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