51.8. Cloning a Webmin Module

In some situations, you may wish that you had the same Webmin module installed twice so each could be configured individually. This can be useful if, for example, you have two versions of Apache installed—perhaps one for testing and one for production. The standard Apache module can only be set up to manage one at a time, so it might appear that the only way to configure both servers would be to install Webmin twice.

There is a solution, however—module cloning. A clone is a copy of an existing module that shares all of the same code but can be configured separately, assigned to different users, and have its user access control set up independently. To create a clone, follow these steps:

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Click on the Webmin Modules ...

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