I just got installed virtualmin : everything was working fine until I created my first server. Since then, menu disappeared from the left side : I cant create any database anymore, no virtual server, etc…
I join a view of the actual menu. Can anybody explain to me what happened : is this bug, a misconfiguration issue… ?
I really don’t know what happened ??
In webmin as well, the configuration modules hint disappeared…
Did you try to make your new virtual server owned by “root”? If so, you’ve turned your root user into a non-root user. Obviously, that’s a poor choice. “root” should never be set as the owner of a virtual server…root already has full access to all virtual servers.
But, now that you’ve done it, you’d need to manually modify /etc/webmin/webmin.acl and set the root user to have access to all modules. That’d look like this:
(Note that that is all one line. The forum will probably do horrible things with it.)
This will at least give you back all of the modules…but you’ll still have to go through the Webmin Users module and re-grant full access to the modules that Virtualmin restricts (MySQL, Apache, BIND, Users and Groups, and maybe a few others).
So, um…don’t do that again. I had thought we gave a warning when you tried to set the owner to root. But, even if we do, if you use a username other than root for your administrative user (like on Ubuntu if you use your “first” user, which has sudo all capabilities), Virtualmin won’t recognize that you’re doing something wrong.
Actually What I did is to import an existing website from /var/www/existingwebsite.com. And when I saw that I could only have access to the root /var/www from internet I deleted the / directory from the Virtualmin -> Configure Website -> Virtual Server Options… Where I guess, just set the default directory was enough.
So now, I’ve changed my webmin.acl file from this :
and I got back the options - full options I guess, from the webmin panel and I’d like to give the “diogene” user full access but I don’t know how. Because this user still can’t create another virtual server or any database.
And actually, I can only login as diogene in webmin or virtualmin as I deactivated the root user during the installation (debian 5.0 lenny)…
So I got 2 questions :
1 - Is the suppression of the root directory is the origine of my problem ?
2 - Where I can find the documentation for the re-configuration of the “diogene” user - when I’m going in the Webmin -> Webmin -> Webmin Users -> diogene, everything possible is already selected ?
