Re: [webmin-l] [bug report] webmin gui - binding webmin to non-public lo ip fails

"Jamie Cameron" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.webmin.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 08/Jun/2018 13:36 ѽ҉ᶬḳ℠ <[email protected]> wrote ..
> Ubuntu Linux 18.04
> Webmin  1.881
> Authentic Theme 19.19
> 
> Having the lo iface assigned a non-public ip (172.23.120.98)  and trying
> to bind Webmin (/webmin/edit_bind.cgi?xnavigation=1) to that ip produces
> -> Failed to change address : The IP address 172.23.120.98 is not active
> on this system, and so cannot be used
> 
> setting 'bind=172.23.122.98' in "/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf" and a
> restart of Webmin gets it working though.

So you're setting the IP of the "lo" (loopback) interface to something
other than 127.0.0.1 ? I don't think that's going to work ..

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