If you are using root user to install the Virtualmin control panel, then it is recommended to create a new a user with sudo access to install Virtualmin due to security reasons.

If you are not sure how to create a new user on ubuntu server and assign sudo access to this user, you can read this article to know how to create new user on ubuntu and grant sudo access.

Let’s begin – update the packages first

Sudo apt update

Installing Virtualmin On Ubuntu Server

The easiest way to get the install script onto your server, is to login to your server and use wget or curl.

wget https://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/virtualmin-install.sh

Run the Install Script and Configure Virtualmin:

Execute the downloaded install script using a command like the following:

sudo sh virtualmin-install.sh

After a few minutes, your system should have everything it needs to provide a full-featured virtual web hosting environment!

Now login to Virtualmin by browsing to port 10000 on the address of your server using the HTTPS protocol.

Ignore the SSL certificate validation error (the SSL certificate is a self-signed one after initial installation but can be replaced with a valid certificate after initial configuration is complete).

Follow the steps in the post-install wizard to setup Virtualmin to suit your environment and needs. Virtualmin will check the configuration of the system and validate some server settings to ensure your system is ready for service.

Click Create Virtual Server to start making your first website in Virtualmin!

#1. Installing Apache and allowing it through the firewall

We can use following steps:

Step 1:

sudo apt update

After the command ask to your password … then you enter your password.

Step 2:

sudo apt install apache2

Let’s allow Apache through the firewall using the following command

Step 3:

sudo ufw allow in “Apache Full”

If we want to check status, then use this command

Step 4:

sudo ufw status

You can now go to the server URL (IP Address) and the apache2 default page will be displayed on the Screen.

Step 5:

You can go to the Firewall.

Enter the URL is

localhost

#2. Installing MySQL on Ubuntu:

We can run the command to install the MySQL is:

We can use following steps:

Step 1:

       sudo apt install mysql-server -y

After installation is completed, then you can run the command for entering the mysql is:

Step 2:

       sudo mysql

If you want to exit from the mysql then enter the command is:

Step 3:

       exit

#3. Installing PHP on Ubuntu:

We can run the command to install the PHP is:

Step 1:

     sudo apt install php libapache2-mod-php php-mysql -y

If we want to check the version of PHP, then we can enter the command is:

Step 2:

     php -v

If we want to change any content from the any file, then we can use the:

Step 3:

     sudo nano filename

Installation is complete for the LAMP.

#4. Installing phpMyAdmin

Step 1:

     sudo apt install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-zip php-gd php-json php-curl

Configuring MySQL to use a password

Step 2:

     sudo mysql -u root -p

If we not set the password on MySQL then, we automatic enter the MySQL using this command.

      sudo mysql

After this command we create a user by using this command:

Step 3:

 CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH caching_sha2_password BY 'password123';

If our user create is successfully then, we can use this command for grant all privileges to the username:

Step 4:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

And all the process are completed then, we can exit with using by this command is:

Step 5:

exit

Check the installation:

sudo service apache2 restart

Note: If all the process are completed, and we get the issue for login page, then we can change the php version from the configuration file.

So you can follow this quick guide to add a new user in your ubuntu server and grant sudo access so that you can run any command like authorized sudo user.

Step 1: Switch to root user

sudo su

Step 2: Create a new user on Ubuntu

Create a new user using following command and provide required information or you can choose press ENTER button to use default information for Full Name, Room Number, Work Phone, Home Phone & Other etc.

(Example: let’s assume we want to create a new user named “adarsh”. You can choose whatever username you prefer)

adduser adarsh

Now in order to switch to newly created user, you can enter following command.

In my case new user created is adarsh, so I will use it. You need to modify this according to the new user that you created for yourself.

su adarsh

Now if you run any command with sudo for example like following command, you get an error like – “User is not in sudoers file.”

sudo apt-get update

That means we need to give sudo access to this newly created user to run any command with sudo privileges.

Step 3: Grant sudo access to the new user account

Before granting sudo access to new user, we need to switch to root user first. So enter following command

sudo su

Now run in order to edit the sudoers file, run following command

sudo visudo

Sudoer file will be opened. Now go to the section in this file that says – “Allow members of group sudo to execute any command”.

Here after the line %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

Write the same line just after it, and then replace the “sudo” word with your new user.

In my case, it is adarsh. So my new file looks something like below.

Now save and exit from this file by pressing CTRL+X and confirming onscreen instructions.

That’s it. Now the newly created user has been added in the sudoers file.

To confirm it, switch to the new user account using following command

sudo adarsh

They try again this update command like following

 sudo apt-get update

Now you’ll see no error shows like before and by providing the password of new user you can run any command with sudo access.

Thanks for reading this article… have a good day!

#1. Installing Nginx on Ubuntu and allowing it through the firewall

We can use following steps:

Step 1: Update the packages first

Enter the command on the terminal:

      sudo apt update

After the command ask to your password … then you enter your password and then use this command is:

Step 2: Command for Installing Nginx:

      sudo apt install Nginx

Step 3: Allow Nginx through the firewall

      sudo ufw app list

      sudo ufw allow in ‘Nginx Full’

If we want to check status, then use this command:

Step 4: Check Firewall Status

      sudo ufw status

You can now go to the server URL (IP Address) and the Nginx default page will be displayed on the Screen.

Step 5: Check the default page on localhost

Go to the browser and type ‘http://your_domain_or_IP/localhost’ in your URL bar.

      localhost

#2. Installing MySQL on Ubuntu

We can run the command to install the MySQL is:

Step 1: Install MySQL

      sudo apt install mysql-server -y

After installation is completed, then you can run the command for entering the mysql is:

Step 2: Enter in MySQL

      sudo mysql

If you want to exit from the MySQL then enter the command is:

Step 3: Exit from MySQL

      exit

#3. Installing PHP on Ubuntu

We can run the command to install the PHP is:

Step 1: Install PHP

      sudo apt install php-fpm php-mysql

If we want to check the version of PHP, then we can enter the command is:

Step 2: Check the PHP version

      php -v

If you want to host a PHP website, you will have to copy your files to:

Step 3: Upload website files to following path

      cd /var/www/html

Step 4: Nginx website configuration file location

      sudo nano /etc/nginx/site-available/default

If we want to change any content from the any file, then we can use the:

Step 5: Updating Nginx website configuration file

      sudo nano filename

Installation is complete for the LEMP.

#4. Installing phpMyAdmin

      sudo apt install phpmyadmin php-mbstring php-zip php-gd php-json php-curl

#5. Configuring MySQL to use a password

Step 1: Check the MySQL user password status

If we set the password on MySQL then we can use this command:

      sudo mysql -u root -p

If we not set the password on MySQL then, we automatic enter the MySQL using this command:

      sudo mysql

After this command we create a user by using this command:

Step 2: Create a new user for MySQL database

      CREATE USER 'username'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITHcaching_sha2_password BY 'password123';

If our user create is successfully then, we can use this command for grant all privileges to the username:

Step 3: Grant access to database to this new user

      GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'username'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION;

And all the process are completed then, we can exit with using by this command is:

Step 4: Exit MySQL

      exit

Step 5: Login with new username & password that you set

Go to the browser and type ‘http://your_domain_or_IP/phpmyadmin’ in your URL bar. You will see an option to log into your PHPMyAdmin console.

      localhost

#6. Create a symlink

      sudo ln -s /usr/share/phpmyadmin /var/www/html/phpMyAdmin

Check the installation:

      sudo service nginx restart

Note: If all the process are completed, and we get the issue for login page, then we can change the php version from the configuration file.