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Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Windows Server 2016 Administration Cookbook Core infrastructure, IIS, Remote Desktop Services, Monitoring, and Group Policy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789135930
Length 248 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Learning the Interface FREE CHAPTER 2. Core Infrastructure Tasks 3. Internet Information Services 4. Remote Desktop Services 5. Monitoring and Backup 6. Group Policy 7. Other Books You May Enjoy

Changing the port on which your website runs

Normally, whenever you access a website, it is running on port 80 or 443. Any normal HTTP request travels over port 80, and the encrypted HTTPS uses port 443. Inside IIS, it is very easy to change the port that a website is listening on if you need to do so. Probably the most common reason to institute a port change on a website is to keep it hidden. Maybe you have an administrative site of some kind and want to make sure that nobody stumbles across it, or perhaps your web server is limited on IP addresses, and you need to turn on another web page but all of your IPs are already running sites. You could utilize a different port for the new site and then have the opportunity to run two (or more) sites using the same IP address, one site on each port.

Whatever your reason for wanting to change the port that a website runs on, let&apos...

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