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

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

On Wed 2021-08-25 05:41 PM MDT -0600, <jca...@we...> wrote:

> 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 ?

OK done. Issue 1558 opened.