Re: Webmin does not work


Subject: Re: Webmin does not work
From: SFaulken (sfalken@citlink.net)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 08:14:20 MST


On Tuesday 22 January 2002 11:07, cbsled@ncia.net wrote:
> I am still clueless on the subject after spending the last three hours
> R'ing every F'ing M I could find. They all say the same thing...
>
> 1)install the rpm.
> 2)log in to localhost...:10000/
>
> I've installed webmin under 4 different os's, on three different machines.
> Two versions of YDL, and two RH PC's. It has done the same thing every
> time, which is absolutely nothing. The browser is invariably unable to
> connect. This must be so basic of a mistake that no one even bothers to
> mention it. At the same time, if there are some prerequisites, why are they
> never mentioned? I've tried every permutation of localhost that I can think
> of, {hostname}, $HOSTNAME, IP address, you name it. The result is a ways
> the same. It also fails to work between two networked machines that I am
> quite sure can see each other.
>
> What am I missing???

Why use an rpm? it's less than a three minute build from the source tarball,
even on my 80mHz/6100, and it ALWAYS worked for me building from source.

                --SF



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