Gah. Decided to install Webmin on my PogoPlug Mobile – which is running ArchLinuxArm v5, incidentally – and spent a good hour or so trying to figure out why I couldn’t access the interface…
The installation is quite simple,
- As root, “pacman -Sy webmin perl-net-ssleay” to install the packages
- Tell webmin what IPs to listen on, “nano /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf” and add a line at the end which reads “allow=192.168.1.0” (making webmin accessible from any IP from 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.255), “allow=0.0.0.0” (if you want to allow access from any IP – not recommended), or some variation of those.
- Enable and Start the webmin service using systemctl – “systemctl enable webmin” then “systemctl start webmin”
With those steps completed, webmin will start during the normal boot process. To access the interface, point your web browser to https://(name or ip of your arch device):10000.
That’s where I encountered a problem. Any browser trying to access the interface would return an SSL protocol error. systemctl showed the service as active with no errors, so everything was nice and confusing. Even after a full reboot, the error persisted.
And now: the stupid solution.
Even though the service wasn’t started until AFTER I modified the configuration, and even though I REBOOTED the system, the Webmin service still needed to be stopped and restarted using systemctl. Don’t ask me why.
- As root, “systemctl stop webmin”.
- “systemctl start webmin”.
After that, everything worked just hunky dory. Blah.