SBDavid
May 6th, 2009
May 6th, 2009
Configuring Your Firewall For Webmin
The simplest way to open up port 10000 is to use one of the Webmin firewall management modules, such as Linux Firewall, BSD Firewall or IPFilter Firewall. However, to access this you’ll need to run a brower on the same system as Webmin, and access it via the URL http://localhost:10000/.
The alternative is to login as root via SSH, and manually edit the firewall configuration file. On Redhat and derived systems, this is /etc/sysconfig/iptables, while on Debian it is /var/lib/iptables. The line you need to add is :
-A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 10000 -j ACCEPT
Once this line has been added, you will need to apply the firewall configuration. This is typically done with the command
/etc/init.d/iptables restart
