webmin ‒ instructions vs real life

[engine]

A certain popular magazine* says cheerfully "Once webmin's installed, launch your favourite browser and point it to http://127.0.0.1:100000. This will bring up the login screen."

Well, actually, no.

First approach


http://127.0.0.1:10000
Error - Bad Request
This web server is running in SSL mode. Try the URL https://localhost:10000/ instead.

Second approach, obediently

https://localhost:10000/
This Connection is Untrusted
You have asked Firefox to connect securely to localhost:10000, but we can't confirm that your connection is secure.

How does a poor simple user get to connect to his newly-installed webmin, then? Thanks in advance for any hints.

* I've been reading magazines from this publisher, on and off, since my Amiga days about twenty years ago. You know, I have yet to follow a single tutorial of theirs that actually works out of the box ...

[Jeroensum]

Maybe you should complain to *THEM* instead of posting something that's obviously wrong, *HERE*.

Then again, I think you probably shouldn't be using webmin anyway since the thing has had more leaks then B.P. and should focus on doing things manually, that way you won't stay a poor simple user and become a "1337" and educated admin one day!

--cheers!

[cariboo]

Usually webmin is used on a remote headless server, so that really isn't an issue.

When I was playing with it, I always accessed it via:

https://<servername>:10000

I always alias the ip addresses of systems I access remotely to a name, in /etc/hosts, as I'm to lazy to type the ip address all the time:



cat /etc/hosts
192.168.1.225 alexis-maverick # Added by NetworkManager
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
127.0.1.1 alexis-maverick
192.168.1.250 willy
192.168.1.215 chilanko
192.168.1.240 likely

[ikt]

How does a poor simple user get to connect to his newly-installed webmin, then? Thanks in advance for any hints.

Confirm the security certificate:

http://ubuntuone.com/p/JXg/

[engine]

Maybe you should complain to *THEM* instead of posting something that's obviously wrong, *HERE*.

It's a point of view ... but I'm looking for an answer <g>

[engine]

Thanks! clear instructions that worked ‒ life (and especially computing) should have more of these.

[CharlesA]

Since the SSL certificate is self signed, you'll get the "invalid certificate" warning, just add an exception and you'll be fine.