In this tutorial, we will guide you through the step-by-step installation process of Virtualmin on OpenSUSE Latest. Virtualmin is a free and open-source web hosting control panel that allows you to manage multiple websites and virtual servers on a single machine.
Before installing Virtualmin, it is recommended to update the system to the latest version. To do this, open the terminal and run the following command:
sudo zypper update
Enter your password if prompted and wait for the update process to complete.
Virtualmin is not available in the default OpenSUSE repositories. Therefore, we need to add the Virtualmin repository to our system.
To do this, create a file called virtualmin.repo in the /etc/zypp/repos.d/ directory using the following command:
sudo nano /etc/zypp/repos.d/virtualmin.repo
Then, paste the following repository information into the file.
[virtualmin]
name=Virtualmin Repository
baseurl=http://software.virtualmin.com/vm/6/gpl/opensuse/leap/15.2/
type=rpm-md
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin.asc
Save and close the file by pressing CTRL + X, followed by Y and ENTER.
Next, we need to import the repository key to trust packages from the Virtualmin repository. Run the following command to import the key:
sudo rpm --import http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/RPM-GPG-KEY-virtualmin.asc
The system will prompt you to confirm the process. Type y and hit ENTER to continue.
Finally, we can install Virtualmin using the following command:
sudo zypper install virtualmin-base
The installation process will take some time to fetch and install all the required packages. Once done, you will see a message indicating the successful installation of Virtualmin.
Now that Virtualmin is installed, it is time to log in to the web interface. Open your web browser and navigate to https://<your-server-ip>:10000. You will see a security warning - this is normal because the SSL certificate is self-signed.
If you receive a connection error or the page does not load, make sure that port 10000 is open on your firewall.
Once the page loads, enter your root / sudo user credentials and click the "Sign in" button.
Congratulations, you have successfully installed Virtualmin on your OpenSUSE Latest server!
In this tutorial, we covered the step-by-step installation process of Virtualmin on OpenSUSE Latest. We hope that you found this tutorial useful and you are now able to install and use Virtualmin for managing your web hosting servers.
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