Re: [webmin-l] system and server status configuration on registered server

[John D. <jl...@jl...>]

On Wed 2021-08-25 04:43 PM MDT -0600, <jca...@we...> wrote:

> On 24/Aug/2021 15:50 John Doherty via webadmin-list 
> <web...@li...> wrote ..
>> I have about 40 machines running webmin. On one of them, which I'll 
>> call
>> webmin1, all the others are registered under the Webmin Servers Index
>> and configured to log in automatically with a username and password.
>> Generally this works great and is very convenient.
>>
>> Recently I noticed a weird anomaly. If I am logged into webmin1 and
>> click one of the others, say webmin2, I am logged in as expected. If 
>> I
>> then navigate to Tools->System and Server Status, I see the monitors
>> configured on webmin2. But if I then click the module config button 
>> on
>> webmin2, I am taken the module config for webmin1.
>>
>> If I then click Return to Service List, I am taken to the monitors on
>> webmin1. If I then click System Server and Status in the navigation
>> panel, I am taken back to the monitors on webmin2.
>>
>> So there doesn't seem to be a way to configure the module options on
>> webmin2: I just can't get to that page, at least not this way.
>>
>> I can log in directly to webmin2 and configure the module that way. 
>> But
>> this seems like a bug so I thought I would report it.
>>
>> The machine I'm calling webmin1 here is FreeBSD 12.2 with webmin 
>> 1.973.
>> That seems to be most recent version in the FreeBSD pkg repositories 
>> and
>> I usually prefer to install and update webmin on FreeBSD that way. 
>> The
>> machine I'm calling webmin2 is CentOS 8.4 with webmin 1.980.
>>
>> I wonder if anyone here has seen this behavior or whether anyone can
>> reproduce it.
>>
>> Thanks for any insights or enlightenment.
>
> This might be due to the way HTML is re-written when proxying from one
> Webmin server to the other.
>
> Does this still happen if you switch the theme on the master and 
> remote
> systems to the older Gray Framed Theme?

Thanks, Jamie. No, it doesn't happen with the old theme. I changed 
themes on the master and one of the others and then things work fine: I 
can get to the module config page for the second machine.

It would not have occurred to me to try this without your suggestion. 
Thanks!