Accessing Usermin

Submitted by martynw on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 09:37 Pro Licensee

The FAQ say to access Usermin by entering https://webmail.example.com

I do my DNS using a separate service, so I tried setting up a CNAME record pointing webmail to example.com, but after doing this https://webmail.example.com just took me to my default domain.

Can I access (or more specifically could my clients access) Usermin in some other way?

Regards,

Martyn

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Submitted by andreychek on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 10:03

When you access Usermin, try using a URL with "http" rather than "https". For example:

http://webmail.example.com

That should redirect you to the Usermin instance on your server, if the URL rewriting is enabled in the Server Templates.

Alternatively, you could also access Usermin directly using this:

https://example.com:20000

Submitted by martynw on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 10:33 Pro Licensee

Thanks, I tried https://example.com:20000, which seems to be working to a point, but say I am looking a preferences and I click "Read Mail," the server thinks for a couple of seconds and then does nothing, I am still in the preferences screen.

I opened port 20000 on the firewall. Perhaps I need to open another port as well?

Thank you.

Martyn

Submitted by martynw on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 11:25 Pro Licensee

Seems okay now after relogging in.

The only thing now is it is forcing me to log in using https, so I get an invalid certificate issue (I already have a certificate for a different domain on this IP address). If I try and log in without https I get:

Error - Bad Request

This web server is running in SSL mode.

Is there an option to make it so it will work as http://example.com:20000 rather than https://example.com:20000

Thanks

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 04/15/2010 - 11:30

You can switch from the https:// URL to http:// at Webmin -> Usermin Configuration -> SSL Encryption, by turning off SSL.