Guest pgleave Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 I've done a 'standard' install on two different boxes, on both after about a day, Webmin becomes inaccessible, from the mandrake box itself, and from elsewhere on the network, even though webmin is apparently still running. I can get the normal 'home' page OK. Any thoughts on why this would be happening, and how I can get it started again without re-installing, would be gratefully received. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 What exactly do you mean it becomes inaccessible and then you say you get the regular home page ok? The first time you access it, it should be through http://127.0.0.1:10000 Or the network ip address of your Linux box. Every time after that, you should use https://127.0.0.1:10000 Also, make sure you check 'Remember login permanently' (That's what I had to do when it just kept looping me back to the login page). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pgleave Posted May 7, 2003 Report Share Posted May 7, 2003 Sorry, I wasn't being very clear about this: for the first 24 hours, I've had no problem accessing webmin remotely using https://192.168.0.2:10000, but after that time, it just doesn't load into the browser. Any browser, from anywhere! Including mozilla on the mandrake box. However, having read your post, I thought I'd try accessing it using http://192.168.0.2:10000 (ie not via the secure protocol) and it now works fine. Still not sure why it stopped though! So it looks like I owe you a beer as well :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 21, 2003 Report Share Posted May 21, 2003 It should install as a https by default (shouldn't it) Perhaps you wrote the webmin config by accident whilst playing around? You didn't say if you were accessing via an Icon or command line.... Its set up as an as needed/called service (or mine is) so it doesn't run unless someone polls port 10000. Anyway, point is from the command line it actually tells me to set the BROWSER envvar. i.e. export BROSWER=mozilla If your accessing it from an icon perhaps its just not reporting back the message....? From a local session I just type webmin <enter> after the browser envvar is set..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 21, 2003 Report Share Posted May 21, 2003 there is an option in the webmin config to turn the use of secure webserver (https) on/off. you must have turned it off, at some point. if you didn't, and you're positive you didn't, make sure someone else didn't decide to do it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 Enough said Tyme.... Well, maybe check out linuxconf and ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul Posted May 22, 2003 Report Share Posted May 22, 2003 I bet it is msec msec (Mandrake Security) changes the permission of things etc, and runs every 24 hours !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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