How to install webmin on centos 6

Webmin is a web-based graphical tool for unix . It is used to manage services like User management, Disk managemet, Network, Iptables ( Firewall ), Cron, Apache, DNS, File sharing and much more .
In this article, we can see about how to install webmin on centos 6 .

Webmin installation on centos 6.

Let’s start the installation.
Step 1 » Create a new file webmin.repo in /etc/yum/repos.d/ and add the below code.

[Webmin]
name=Webmin Distribution Neutral
#baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum
mirrorlist=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/mirrorlist
enabled=1

Step 2 » Install webmin GPG key using below command.
rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc
Step 3 » Update the repositories.
yum check-update
Step 4 » Now install webmin package using yum .
yum install webmin
Step 5 » Start the service and make it start automatically.
chkconfig webmin on
service webmin start
Step 6 » By default, Webmin will listen on port 10000, Allow this port in iptables if it is enabled.
iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 10000 -j ACCEPT
service iptables save
Step 7 » Now open http://serverip:10000 in your browser, you could see the below screen after login ( Use root username and password ).