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Add Lets Encrypt for Webmin/Virtualmin Panel itself

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Are you getting a “challenge did not pass” error? Can’t find a matching hostname for your Webmin panel to generate Let’s Encrypt certificates to?

The trick is that Lets Encrypt only works with Apache. Most Webmin/Virtualmin panels are running on miniserv Perl scripts on port 10000. We must follow the following steps:

1. Create a virtual server (or sub server) for the matching domain in Virtualmin.
2. Go to Webmin > Webmin Configuration > SSL Encryption > Let’s Encrypt
3. Request Certificate for “Apache virtual host matching hostname”. Set renewal for 12 months!

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Virtualenvwrapper on CentOS/RHEL with Virtualmin

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I used the IUS Community and EPEL repositories to install python 2.6 on my RHEL 5.6 Tikanga box. However I faced some errors, which I didn’t see fully documented online so I figured they would come handy to myself and whoever else tries to do similar things.

Problem 1: Error on mkvirtualenv and other commands: No module named virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader
Resolution: After looking at the source code, virtualenvwrapper can’t find our special python installation. Put the following line in your .bashrc:

VIRTUALENVWRAPPER_PYTHON=/usr/bin/python26

along with the other two lines that everybody tells you to put in:

export WORKON_HOME=$HOME/.virtualenvs
source <strong>/usr/bin/virtualenvwrapper.sh</strong>

(Note that virtualenvwrapper was installed to the above location, this is a different location than the one that everybody else (who is documenting the procedure) is installing at. I’m not sure if this is a new change in virtualenv or because of our special python26 installation. So use locate to find your location properly.)

Problem 2: Virtualenvwrapper commands do not auto-complete or can’t be found also unless .bashrc is sourced manually.
Reason: .bashrc is not executed when logging in to the box (like it should be because it is listed inside .bash_profile, which should be executed also)
Solution: This happens because virtualmin setup’s default $SHELL for each non-root user is /bin/sh. To fix this for on user, open up /etc/passwd, find the user that you are interested in, and change the /bin/sh part to /bin/bash. To fix the default for each virtualmin created user, go to virtualmin’s admin page, under System Customization > Custom Shells > Choose the /bin/bash custom shell.

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Installing VirtualMin – “Error: Missing Dependency: libGeoIP.so.1 is needed by package proftpd”

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On my Red Hat 5.5 box (similar to CentOS), I was trying to install Virtualmin.

I got two errors while installing.

#1.
-This system is not registered with RHN.
RHN support will be disabled.
\Error: Missing Dependency: ruby-rdoc is needed by package rubygems-0.9.2-1.el5.noarch (virtualmin)
Error: Missing Dependency: perl(XML::Parser) is needed by package perl-XML-Simple-2.14-4.fc6.noarch (virtualmin)
Error: Missing Dependency: libdistcache.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package 2:mod_ssl-2.2.3-43.3.vm.x86_64 (virtualmin)
Error: Missing Dependency: libaprutil-1.so.0()(64bit) is needed by package 1:httpd-2.2.3-43.3.vm.x86_64 (virtualmin)
Error: Missing Dependency: libnal.so.1()(64bit) is needed by package 2:mod_ssl-2.2.3-43.3.vm.x86_64 (virtualmin)
This simply meant that I had to run rhn_register to register using the Red Hat login/password that I had received. Because you cannot run yum/update without registering with RHN, unlike CentOS which can update without registering. Simple enough.

#2.
Error: Missing Dependency: libGeoIP.so.1 is needed by package proftpd
This happens because apparently Virtualmin updated to proftpd from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3 without testing properly (source: Virtualmin Forums). To fix, I installed RPMForge and ran install script again.