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

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 25/Aug/2021 16:28 John Doherty via webadmin-list <web...@li...> wrote ..
> 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!

Good to hear this fixed it.

Could you file a bug for the issue when the default theme is being
used at https://github.com/virtualmin/authentic-theme/issues ?