Feel free to leave a comment if you have trouble changing Virtualmin default port. You should be able to access Virtualmin on your new port if you had problems earlier. Following command will take care of that. And it’s a good idea to close the port 10000 with firewall if it’s already open. ufw allow 10685Ĭhange the port number on above command accordingly. You need to be logged into your server over SSH to run this command. Following command will open port 10685 on my server. Now if you have firewall enabled on your server, you should open new port so you can connect to Virtualmin. Virtualmin won’t be available on port 10000 anymore. You’ll be automatically redirected to the new port. If you want Webmin and Apache run on one server, you're either need to change Webmin to listen on other port, like 10000 and access your site as and Webmin panel as :10000 or get an extra IP address, and use it with a subdomain as and configuration initially desired. So my changes look like this.Ĭlick Save to save changes. You’ll see port 10000 listed under Listen on IPs and ports and Listen for broadcasts on UDP port. I’ll just show you how to change default port for this tutorial. I’ve tried going to Webmin Configuration > Sending Email, checking Enable SSL and setting Use port number to 587, but when I click save, it automatically unchecks Enable SSL and automatically set Use port number to default port. You can configure a single IP address for Virtualmin to listen to if you have multiple IP addresses allocated to your server. You’ll land on the page you can change IP addresses and ports Virtualmin and Webmin listen to. With Webmin, you can manage user accounts, configure DNS settings, and change settings for common packages on the fly. Once inside, go to Webmin > Webmin Configuration. Webmin is a modern web control panel that allows you to administer your Linux server through a browser-based interface. You can start by login into Virtualmin on default port as root user. So you should remember which port you changed it to. And once you change it, you can’t access Virtualmin on port 10000. I suggest you select any number between 1009 as your access port. Under webmin, go to Webmin > Webmin Configuration > Ports and Addresses There youll see where you can change the port that webmin listens on. I’ll write down instructions below for people who don’t like video tutorials. You can watch the video tutorial found on the top of this page for virtual walk-through. If you change this port to an uncommon one, it’ll be impossible to launch brute force attacks against Virtualmin. Hackers have this tiny opportunity because they know which port Virtualmin is listening to. Now that we have an active firewall rule allowing us to. Of course they can’t get in without the correct password, but sometimes some of them gets through. Once the port has been changed, press CTRL+X, followed by y, and then hit enter to save your changes. Port 10000 is heavily targeted by hackers to gain access to Virtualmin server. But fortunately there is an easy method to change port to an uncommon port and harden the security of your Virtualmin server.Ĭhanging default access port of Virtualmin is the first thing you must do after building your server with Virtualmin. Being the default setting for all fresh installations make port 10000 vulnerable to attacks. Web server port (default 10000) The HTTP port on which Webmin listens.
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