I have been using Virtualmin for over 5 years and last week I had to reinstalled it on two of my VPS. Both have the same results virtual servers all point to the default apache page and when using the framed theme the Viryulamin tab disappears so we are only left with the Webmin tab. I have reinstalled a few times and even had one of the machines moved to a new node but no luck.
The two servers are openvz and are on different networks and run by different companies and in different countries. They were running virtualmin fine for the last two years on Ubuntu16 so what has changed? At this stage I am weary of updating my other servers.
Anyone else experiencing this problem and if so what did you do.
I solved the issue by editing the VirtualHost files for each site in /etc/apache2/sites-available/
I had to change the line at the start of each file from VirtualHost 127.0.0.2:80 to VirtualHost *:80
So why did I have to do this? What has changed in Virtualmin?
Not sure if its the same thing, but I noticed virtualmin tab disappeared also on my virtual machines, BUT the cloudmin host machine now has control of all the virtualmin settings for each domain via a new menu in the right window pain for the domains. All the same menu settings show up on the main server instead of having to open another webmin/virtualmin window for each virtual server. Which I kinda of like, so far.
When we do a backup of a working site then restore to one of the new installations the PHP files want to download in the browser.
We were up to now able to run backup and then restore form dedicated servers to VPS machines KVM or OpenVZ and back again.
All our servers are using Ubuntu 16 and PHP7.
We have installed it now on 3 different servers and always the same result. So sad to say we are about to give up on Virtualmin it always worked out of the box without any issues until now.
PHP files download instead of opening.
You need to run this to install required php7 files required by apache. Then reload apache.
sudo apt-get install libapache2-mod-php7.0