Install Wetty on Centos/RHEL 6.X

What is Wetty?

As a system administrator, you probably connect to remote servers using a program such as GNOME Terminal (or the like) if you’re on a Linux desktop, or a SSH client such as Putty if you have a Windows machine, while you perform other tasks like browsing the web or checking your email.

Step 1: Install epel repo

# wget http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
 # rpm -ivh epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

Step 2: Install dependencies

# yum install epel-release git nodejs npm -y

Step 3: After installing these dependencies, clone the GitHub repository

# git clone https://github.com/krishnasrinivas/wetty

Step 4: Run Wetty

# cd wetty
 # npm install

Step 5: Starting Wetty and Access Linux Terminal from Web Browser

# node app.js -p 8080

Step 6: Wetty through HTTPS

# openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -keyout key.pem -out cert.pem -days 365 -nodes (complete this)

Step 7: launch Wetty via HTTPS

# nohup node app.js --sslkey key.pem --sslcert cert.pem -p 8080 &

 

Step 8: Add an user for wetty

 

# useradd <username>
 # Passwd <username>

Step 9: Access wetty

http://Your_IP-Address:8080
 give the credential have created before for wetty and access

 

Enjoy