Hi,

Is there any web site or articles that teaches how to use webmin for newbies?

Like step by step instructions for:
How to setup name server?
How to setup new domain name so it will be visible on the net?
How to setup emails?

webmin documentations are too technical for me:D

If anyone knows such site, please post it here.

Thanks.

Umm, there are tons of how tos out there. try http://www.linuxdocs.org But you really have to ask yourself, if you are having this hard of a time doing the most basic things of boxen admin, don't you think you should maybe resell for a bit or get someone to help you run your box for you while you do a little more studying? It probably would be much safer for you. All the documentation is there. I recommend that you NOT use webmin and use the command line to get things set up and configured. This will get you a little more used to the system and how things all internconnect.

iwannabe,
I think the webmin interface is well designed. You should find tutorials for things like name server or email. And once you learn the generic knowledge, you should be able to use webmin. I am not aware and I don't think there is any such basic tutorial.
I am a Linux newbie myself, but I still learn webmin in two weeks.

Peter

smartbackups:
Thanks for your post. :)
You think I should resell for a bit?
That's not my intention.

I just have about little more than 50
domains which are mine. I use them
to drive traffic to my main site.

ckpeter:
Thanks. :)
I am sure I can figure it out if I give
enough time to learn it. My problem is
that one of my domain is already listed
on search engines and it's offline because
I just got my new server. It took more
than whole year to reach first page of
google and many other search engines for
my key word and I don't want to loose that
because my domain remains offline too long.

I guess I can always ask my new host to setup
one domain for me.

I just thought there will be plenty of site
that shows simple step by step instruction
to setup domains using webmin since webmin
is such popular program.

I guess I was wrong. :D

iwannabe,
Well, webmin is popular, but that's among technical users, so there aren't any tutorials.
If you need help on some small things, please PM me, I will try to help(for free).

Peter

But you really have to ask yourself, if you are having this hard of a time doing the most basic things of boxen admin, don't you think you should maybe resell for a bit or get someone to help you run your box for you while you do a little more studying?
No offense here, but that's a bunch of malarky. Take EVERY opportunity you have to learn more about these things. I'm not saying you should start your own web hosting company without any knowledge, but if smartbackups would re-read your post, he would see you never SAID you were planning on doing anything like that.

try http://www.swelltech.com/support/webminguide/index.html

ckpeter:
Thanks for your generous offer.
I may just do that in near future.
But, let me see if I can do it on my own
or seek help from host. :D

sbrad:
Thanks for your post.
Yes, I am trying to learn simple stuff like that.
If I didn't, I'll probably purchased Plesk.

elijah:
Thanks.
I already printed them out.

I am just kind of surprised that there is no quick start.
Most program comes with two manuals, right?
One is simple quick start and the other, detailed indepth
manual :D

can it use for hosting company??

Hey all,

I can see my domain!

But, with "www.mydomain.com" only. :(

What do I do to make "http://mydomain.com" work same
as "www" in front :confused:

By the way, I am glad that I installed webmin.
I am learning so much.

But...
I am taking too much tylenol.
Perhaps I am too old to learn new things. :)

Is 40ish too old to learn linux? :D

Well, actually, I learned very basic unix about 20 some years
ago, but, I haven't used it for so long, forgot almost all of it. :D

Hi,

I am not using webmin (yet), but your name record should look something like :

yourdomain IN SOA ns.yourdomain.com hostmaster.yourdomain. (
+200112221+ 3600 7200 3600000 600 )
IN NS ns.yourdomain.com.
IN NS ns2.yourdomain.com

IN A 64.176.209.22 (****)
IN MX 10 mail.yourdomain.com.
$ORIGIN yourdomain.com.
mail IN A 64.176.209.22
ftp IN A 64.176.209.22
www IN A 64.176.209.22 (****)


those two points marked with **** are important.
they both should be there and correct. if not, thats the problem.

in case you are using webmin to update your DNS records, it should automatically increas the version number. If you decie to do it with an editor, you have to increase it by yourself by 1... (the version number is the number i have put between the two +.

-Alex

Originally posted by Lah_Lah
can it use for hosting company?? as far as I know there is no real customer control panel, right?

You could always try...

http://www.n-systech.com/products/ispcontrol/

Unfortunately there's no demo atm... :(

Originally posted by ComplexMind
http://www.n-systech.com/products/ispcontrol/

Unfortunately there's no demo atm... :( you are not right, there is one: http://www.niemueller.de/webmin/modules/ispcontrol/onlinedemo.html

but it does not seem to me, like you have much control. in fact it seems like you can provide just one configuration ..

Originally posted by iwannabe
Hey all,

I can see my domain!

But, with "www.mydomain.com" only. :(

What do I do to make "http://mydomain.com" work same
as "www" in front :confused:


You have to turn Rewrite to ON for that domain. You can do that in the httpd.conf file.

Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say that there is no 'usable' demo available at the moment. I spoke with Tim Niemuller a while back and I am assured there is much more funtionality available when you actually use the module. Unfortunately I have not yet had time to follow up and try out the modules properly.

The 'demo' is little more than a mock-up, and I agree it will not allow you to actually do anything... Pointless really :confused:

Has anyone else on here used the ISP Control module with Webmin? Is it any good?

Hi,

I want to thank everyone for the help :-)

With fine falks help, I now can do what I need to do :-)

I doubt there'll be another dummy like me.
But, just in case, I wrote very basic steps to setup
domain names (name based) using webmin.

If anyone need it, it's at http://1axe.com/domain-setup.html

Please do not ask me if something do not work.
I do not know why and how to fix.
All I know is that I can setup domains with it.
At least for my server that is :-)

It seems that I can do alot more custom configurations
with webmin than other control panel.

If anyone have step by step instructions to do specific task
with webmin, please post it here.

For example:
I can not upload files using FTP after setting up domain.
Seems that I need to change CHMOD.
How do I do that using webmin?
I tried it, but, it doesn't work.
Could it be because I am using FTP program which is not supported
by webmin?

Currently, I am manually changing the CHMOD as root user.

Thanks again for helping me learn how to setup domains :-)

By the way, Tim Niemuller no longer sells "ISP control" thingy :(

Jonathan