# webmin/webmin

Powerful and flexible web-based server management control panel

Repository: https://github.com/webmin/webmin
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/webmin
Homepage: http://www.webmin.com/
Language: HTML
License: BSD-3-Clause
License Family: permissive
Last push: 2026-08-26T19:26:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 98, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 6253, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 12, "gap_med": 16.0, "n_releases_24m": 23}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6027, forks 792 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:34.368915+00:00)

## What it is
Webmin is a mature web-based control panel for administering Unix-like servers, letting users manage users, disk quotas, services, config files, and apps like Apache, BIND, MySQL, and Postfix from a browser. It is extensible via modules and themes, with related projects Virtualmin and Usermin.

## Use cases
- manage a linux server from a web browser
- web-based control panel for my vps
- configure apache and mysql without editing config files
- manage users and disk quotas on a unix server
- administer dns and mail servers through a gui
- monitor and manage systemd services remotely
- set up fail2ban and firewall rules via a web ui

## When to choose
- you want a browser-based GUI for full server administration on Unix-like systems
- you manage many services (Apache, BIND, Postfix, MySQL) and want one unified panel
- you need an extensible panel with custom modules and theming
- you prefer a long-established, actively maintained tool with a large install base

## When to avoid
- you only use containers or Kubernetes and prefer declarative infrastructure-as-code
- you need a Windows server control panel (Webmin targets Unix-like systems)
- you want a minimal headless setup with no web-exposed admin interface
- you require modern stack tooling like Ansible or Terraform for configuration management

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: configuration-management, monitoring, developer-tools, gui, self-hosted
- domain: self-hosted, operating-systems, web-development
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform
- tags: control-panel, server-administration, web-based-ui, perl, sysadmin, virtualmin, devops, system-administration, linux, web-server

## Member repositories
- webmin/webmin (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:34.368915+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:49:14.341550+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/webmin/webmin (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:34.368915+00:00, sha 125628e1a733)
  - homepage: http://www.webmin.com/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:56.308169+00:00, sha e6bb529e89ba)
  - site_page: https://webmin.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:56.322652+00:00, sha f2e65175e99e)
  - site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog/webmin-2.653-and-usermin-2.552-released (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:56.326501+00:00, sha eb2c07fdb2a0)
  - site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:56.317908+00:00, sha 6e442c4b1869)
  - site_page: https://webmin.com/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:56.320118+00:00, sha eb4f66d7d056)
  - site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog/webmin-2.660-and-usermin-2.560-released (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:56.324695+00:00, sha 560de08f91e6)
  - site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog/webmin-2.652-and-usermin-2.551-released (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:56.328414+00:00, sha 58c6ef3816f6)
  - site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog/webmin-2.651 (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:56.330485+00:00, sha 5e71d1a479c2)
  - site_page: https://webmin.com/changelog/webmin-2.650-and-usermin-2.550-released (fetched 2026-08-29T08:45:56.332095+00:00, sha 4204b277e942)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.