Hi, I haven’t been here in a while but, I have an issue that I can’t find a solution for. today we had an outage and all day I have not been able to login to webmin. I keep keep getting access denied after 2 years of working fine. I can work with all WP sites but I can’t access the control panel. I’m sorry i don’t have much info on the panel but it is Ubuntu 22.04. Can someone please point me in the right direction? I have access through Putty but no access through a browser. Thanks in advance.
Ubuntu 22.04
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| OS type and version | REQUIRED |
| Webmin version | REQUIRED |
| Virtualmin version | REQUIRED |
| Webserver version | REQUIRED |
| Related packages | SUGGESTED |
If you can login via SSH as “root” user, or a user capable of “sudo” command, check the status of Webmin. Most modern distros use “systemctl” to control “services”, try:
sudo systemctl status webmin.service
This will check to see if the service is actually running, if not run:
sudo systemctl start webmin.service
If after confirming, or starting Webmin you cannot login via the browser, then there could be something else blocking your attempts like a misconfigured “firewall” or “fail2ban”.
A firewall cannot explain an “access denied” error (but maybe OP is not reporting the error exactly). A firewall would be a connection failed or timed out.
The same is true of fail2ban and Webmin not running.
An access denied error has to be Webmin (or some web server) responding with an error.
If Cloudflare is involved OP should have mentioned that from the beginning. That’s a huge factor in questions like this, because Cloudflare is a proxy (a secret proxy, the worst kind).