Removing Default SSL port

Hello everyone,

I am currenltly running a win2k sp4 box with iis installed. i am trying to
get something to work here that is a little out of standard practice. I am
trying to install Jakarta Tomcat in order to host some jsp servlets on the
same machine that is running IIS. I want this to be accessible to everyone,
however, i can not use port 80 since IIS is binded to that. I had this great
idea to remove the default SSL port 443 from the IIS configuration and use
that for the tomcat installation. Upon trying to do this, i can not
highlight the default SSL port in order to remove it.

Why would i like to do this? I would really prefer to use this port because
some system admins only allow certain connections through thier firewalls,
limiting only to destination ports 80 and 443.

Anyone have any ideas on how i can accomplish this, possibly through the
metabase? If not, any other ideas, aside from using an isapi redirector?

thanks in advance,
-Dustin

AlokKumar
Tue Jun 21 10:03:04 CDT 2005

Are you using SSL in your IIS site? If you are then don't remove port 443
from IIS. If it si not important to use port 80 in IIS then you can change
that to port 81 and then use port 80 in your Tomcat server. But if you want
port 80 for your IIS web server then best idea si to get another IP address
added to the adapert and run tomcat in this new IP address in port 80.
Rememver to bind your IIS web server to the first IP address rather than
leaving it as "All Unassigned".
Although you can run your web server in any port you want but you are
correct that there are company who has just opened port 80 and port 443 to be
accesed from their network. This will prevent them from accessing your site
if you run Tomcat in the default port 8080.

Alok

"dustin mihalko" wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I am currenltly running a win2k sp4 box with iis installed. i am trying to
> get something to work here that is a little out of standard practice. I am
> trying to install Jakarta Tomcat in order to host some jsp servlets on the
> same machine that is running IIS. I want this to be accessible to everyone,
> however, i can not use port 80 since IIS is binded to that. I had this great
> idea to remove the default SSL port 443 from the IIS configuration and use
> that for the tomcat installation. Upon trying to do this, i can not
> highlight the default SSL port in order to remove it.
>
> Why would i like to do this? I would really prefer to use this port because
> some system admins only allow certain connections through thier firewalls,
> limiting only to destination ports 80 and 443.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on how i can accomplish this, possibly through the
> metabase? If not, any other ideas, aside from using an isapi redirector?
>
> thanks in advance,
> -Dustin
>
>
>