If you want a better administrative panel on your GoDaddy VDS/VPS, and you have PHP5 installed, you can install WebMin. SSH into your box using PuTTY.

First we want to install Perl’s Net::SSL library, which allows Webmin to run under SSL. But first we need the OpenSSL source code:

su - root

cd /usr/local
wget http://www.openssl.org/source/openssl-0.9.7f.tar.gz
tar xvfz openssl-0.9.7f.tar.gz
mv openssl-0.9.7f openssl

Next we install perl’s Net::SSL library via RPM:

wget ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/perl-Net-SSLeay-1.26-3.fc4.i386.rpm
rpm -i perl-Net-SSLeay-1.26-3.fc4.i386.rpm

Now test to make sure Net:SSLeay works. When you run the below command you should get no response. If you get an error then it’s not installed correctly:

perl -e 'use Net::SSLeay'

Ok, now we can download and install WebMin:

wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.330-1.noarch.rpm
rpm -U webmin-1.330-1.noarch.rpm

Now you can log into webmin at https://yourserver:10000. Log in under the same account as your PuTTY account.

Note the above assumes you’re installing version 1.330 🙂