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I returned recently to dabbling with virtual host sites on Apache2. Some long time ago I had created a number of localhost virtual host sites, just for development testing before deploying. One such site I created was phpmyadmin.dev (for testing phpmyadmin). I tried to launch my dormant localhost site and I was surprised to see this warning message popping up. Stop using *.DEV Recently (psst 2017!), Google has purchased the .dev top-level. This means that you had 2 years to move away from using .dev,...

Following the approach I tested in this thread .. the user's default File Manager can be launched through a Custom Command. Here for example (in Ubuntu) Thunar is launched. echo "Launch thunar" && export DISPLAY=:0 && gnome-terminal && xdotool type --delay 10 "thunar" && xdotool key KP_Enter The command can be edited to apply parameters from a form to setup sessions. If a double pane File Manager such as Total Commander is launched the source/destination can be setup from parameters. Other applications...

I find that an added advantage of the setting export DISPLAY=:0 in the command string is that I can now launch applications directly from a Custom Command. In particular I can launch automation scripts which basically extend the Custom Commands library. I keep these in /etc/webmin-scripts/

After much researching I have found a workaround. Basically I can write a Webmin Command to launch Ubuntu gnome-terminal (bypassing Webmin shell terminal) and then when launched invoke xdotool to emulate key actions on gnome-terminal such as typing a command string. Here is the above colour test example written as a Webmin Command. export DISPLAY=:0 && gnome-terminal && xdotool type --delay 100 "msgcat --color=test" && xdotool key KP_Enter The export DISPLAY=:0 parameter is inserted to avoid an error...

I have Webmin with Authentic Theme installed in Ubuntu 16.04. After some period of dormancy, not using Webmin, I have revisited Webmin to build a catalogue of Custom Commands to hold CLI commands in use in development/deployment (Heroku, Google etc.). I have created Categories for main menu and cloned Custum Commands - all working fine including forms to set parameters for commands. However, I cannot recollect how to output coloured syntax through the command shell terminal. When I use local gnome-monitor...

I don't really know enough about your requirements or where you are on the learning curve. What version of Ubuntu are you running? Have you subscribed to https://ubuntuforums.org (General Help forum) to learn Ubuntu? Why do you find it necessary to install webmin? Do you have other users / virtual hosts to manage through Webmin? I would concentrate on learning Ubuntu and in particular the command line interface (cli). Use Ctrl+Alt+T to launch terminal. Understand when to use sudo or sudo -H Start...

I would double check instructions here ... http://www.webmin.com/ssl.html And read the warning message about firewall blocking SSL requests. Have you looked through your logs .. logfile=/var/webmin/miniserv.log errorlog=/var/webmin/miniserv.error

Personally I don't believe that it is necessary nor wise to install webmin on all 50 servers. I am exploring in development mode how to manage multiple instances of ubuntu (though not as many as 50). My approach is to install webmin on one server instance (the controller of assets) which is the master server. Indeed I am running webmin on localhost to get started by testing this approach. On that server I install ansible and SSH then I am creating custom commands to apply ansible playbooks to satellite...