Windows

[ptaz]

Has anyone installed webin on windows, and if so, can you please tell me how.  I have Apache2 installed and running.  Would like webmin to be run through apache.  I tried installing webmin under windows but it asked me for porcess.exe file.  Can't find it anywhere.  Can someone please help me how I can go about doing this.

Thanks

[Michael Mansour]

Webmin does not work with Windows. Please read www.webmin.com for supported platforms.

[Edward Bosco]

Note that Webmin creates and uses its own https miniserver. You use it independently of Apache.

Webmin works fine with Windows. Here's a procedure to install webmin on a Windows XP machine:

Here's a quick HowTo list-

Prep:
1) Get a copy of Winzip.exe which handles .zip or .gz files.
2) Install the latest ActiveState Perl from ActiveState. Verify operation of Perl via c:\Webmin>perl -V
3) Obtain and install process.exe; current version  is process203.exe; try a google.
4) Verify sc.exe is present, a Windows package
5) Using the ActiveState ppm tool, add a repository that contains
  Win32::Daemon.pm
The filename is case sensitive in searching; Roth Consulting has this module.
  Install Win32::Daemon.
6) Using the ActiveState ppm tool, add a repository that contains
  Net_SSLeay.pm
The filename is case sensitive in searching; the University of Winnipeg has this module.
  Install Net_SSLeay.pm
7) Create a subdirectory C:\Temp for the Webmin installer to use.

Install:
1) Extract the .zip file somewhere, like c:\Webmin
2) Open a shell window, and cd c:\Webmin
3) Run 'perl setup.pl'
4) Answer all the questions as with a normal Unix Webmin install

Enjoy!

[Samri Shah]

ptaz:  The instruction given by Edward is fine, in fact there is a documentation on Webmin website (http://www.webmin.com/download.html) which should give you the steps.

My personal experience -- yucks!  didn;t work.

What I did is. 

1.  Follow the steps as directed.  Get all the necessry packages/software installed.
2.  In step#7.  run "perl setup.pl",  At each question that asked you about directory location -- in my case it failed.  What I did is, whenever it failed.  I manually created the folder.  For /etc/webmin for example, go ahead and create a folder c:\etc\webmin

3.  rerun "perl setup.pl", and manually create the folder.

4.  Another interesting thing would happen towards the end of installation. -- some file needs to be manually edited.

Edit the file setup.pl and locate the following section.
#---
    # Ask for operating system type
    print "***********************************************************************\n";
    $autoos = $ENV{'autoos'} || 2;
    $temp = &tempname();
    print "About to run $perl ".&quote_path("$srcdir/oschooser.pl")." ".&quote_path("$srcdir/os_list.txt")." $temp $autoos\n";
#    $ex = system("$perl ".&quote_path("$srcdir/oschooser.pl")." ".&quote_path("$srcdir/os_list.txt")." $temp $autoos");
    $ex = system("$perl ".&quote_path("$srcdir/oschooser.pl")." ".&quote_path("$srcdir/os_list.txt")." $temp");
#-----
Please note this line:
#    $ex = system("$perl ".&quote

I replaced it with:
    $ex = system("$perl ".&quote_path("$srcdir/oschooser.pl")." ".&quote_path("$srcdir/os_list.txt")." $temp");

I am very new to perl -- this get the webmin installed, with about 90% functionality.

Give it a shot -- and share your experience.

Cheers.