Let’s start by installing all the needed packages for webmin

yum install openssl perl-Net-SSLeay perl-Crypt-SSLeay

Now let’s import the GPG key

rpm --import http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc

The last step before we start installing webmin is to create it’s repo file /etc/yum.repos.d/webmin.repo

[Webmin]
 name=Webmin
 baseurl=http://download.webmin.com/download/yum
 enabled=1

Now we can install webmin

yum --enablerepo=webmin install webmin

Before you start using webmin I recommend that you should change webmin’s default port 10000 into let’s say 4525, or you can pick a number.
Edit /etc/webmin/miniserv.conf, make sure that ssl is set to 1 and the port is different then 10000

port=4525
listen=4525
ssl=1

In this example I used port 4525, change that to a number bellow 65535, but make sure that it’s not in use.
You can find out what ports are in use by running:

netstat -nlp

As a final step restart webmin

service webmin restart

Now access webmin using this format:

https://IP-OF-THE-SERVER:4525

If you can’t access this web page make sure that the firewall allows incoming connections on port 4525.
You can check the firewall by running:

iptables -nvL

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