[HOW TO] Webmin could not start on boot?

If you did not setup webmin with https you need to to connect using http://localhost:10000 instead of https://localhost:10000.
If webmin is not starting by default on your computer you need to create a script in your /etc/init.d with this content, call the script webmin.

#!/bin/sh

# chkconfig: 235 99 10

# description: Start or stop the Webmin server

#

### BEGIN INIT INFO

# Provides: webmin

# Required-Start: $network $syslog

# Required-Stop: $network

# Default-Start: 2 3 5

# Default-Stop: 0 1 6

# Description: Start or stop the Webmin server

### END INIT INFO

start=/etc/webmin/start

stop=/etc/webmin/stop

lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/webmin

confFile=/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf

pidFile=/var/webmin/miniserv.pid

name='Webmin'

case "$1" in

'start')

    $start >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null

    RETVAL=$?

    if [ "$RETVAL" = "0" ]; then

        touch $lockfile >/dev/null 2>&1

    fi

    ;;

'stop')

    $stop

    RETVAL=$?

    if [ "$RETVAL" = "0" ]; then

        rm -f $lockfile

    fi

    pidfile=`grep "^pidfile=" $confFile | sed -e 's/pidfile=//g'`

    if [ "$pidfile" = "" ]; then

        pidfile=$pidFile

    fi

    rm -f $pidfile

    ;;

'status')

    pidfile=`grep "^pidfile=" $confFile | sed -e 's/pidfile=//g'`

    if [ "$pidfile" = "" ]; then

        pidfile=$pidFile

    fi

    if [ -s $pidfile ]; then

        pid=`cat $pidfile`

        kill -0 $pid >/dev/null 2>&1

        if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then

            echo "$name (pid $pid) is running"

            RETVAL=0

        else

            echo "$name is stopped"

            RETVAL=1

        fi

    else

        echo "$name is stopped"

        RETVAL=1

    fi

    ;;

'restart')

    $stop ; $start

    RETVAL=$?

    ;;

*)

    echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop | restart }"

    RETVAL=1

    ;;

esac

exit $RETVAL

Make this executable with:

sudo chmod 755 /etc/init.d/webmin

Add it to the startup procedure with:

update-rc.d webmin defaults

 After this webmin will start with your computer.

To avoid all these small things you can also download webmin as a debian package that you can install in your system.

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