On Sunday 03 Nov 2002 6:47 pm, H. Carter Harris wrote: > I have an almost virgin install of ML8.2 running and I am trying to bring > up some sever applications. So far the only one I have in a usable state > is TightVNC and though I haven't tuned it the way I want it ... it is > running nicely. I have the box on a private IP address and the router is > using NAT to send VNC requests to the box. > > During the install, Apache, BIND, and PostFix and MySQL were installed with > defaults and now I want to use them. > > To try to educate myself, I bought the O'Reilly books on Apache and BIND > and have been working my way through them. I installed and have running M$ > DNS (on a 2000 box), IIS (on a NT4 box), a mail server (not Exchange) so I > have some experience with these type applications. > > Here is one problem I keep running into: I can't find stuff. For example, > Webmin was also installed on this system (after the initial install) from > the Mandrake CDs. I executed it when I was infront of computer so I think > it is working. Then for documentation I go to the webmin site and they > tell me the rpm installs this application in /usr/libexec/webmin. When I > go there and try to list the files; there is no such folder. > > I want to configure webmin to run under apache. I locate the documentation > for putting webmin in a virtual folder and the first sentence says: > "Create a new Apache virtual server with the document set to the directory > where you installed Webmin". How do I find out where that was done? > > If there is more technical/detailed information on the Mandrake > installation process, I would appreciate a link to that place. Thanks in > advance, Carter.
I understand your confusion. Documentation is often a major failing of Linux apps and distros. First Finding stuff --------------------- Applications do not have to be installed in the locations the authors defined. The webmin authors may have selected /usr/libexec/webmin as the install folder, but Mandrake has its own standard for where apps go, and so the packager will have compiled webmin to go somewhere else. To find where an application is there are two really useful tools. slocate and kpackage Slocate will find any file on the system for you. Install the slocate rpm, then in a root terminal type 'updated' After a few minutes you will have a database of every file on the system. To find a file type slocate filename kpackage (or similar apps) will tell you which files are in an RPM. Just select the RPM and look at the files list. Running Webmin -------------------- Webmin does not need to run under Apache. It is a web server in its own right and is entirely independent of Apache. To run webmin just install the webmin RPM. Check the webmin service is running with Mandrake Control Centre>System>Services. Then open a browser and type https://localhost:10000 in the URL line (NOTE https NOT http) You will get a message saying a certificate is self certified. Accept it and log in as root to webmin. Postfix ------- As for Postfix I have a howto on my homepage which may help you. Most of the material on there is not required for a simple mail server, but you will get the idea. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/djennings/ HTH derek
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