Server port 8443 suddenly enabled - how to turn off?

Hi

I found it easier to change the Ubiquiti ports to get the Ubiquiti controller running.

1. go to ~/Library/Application Support/UniFi/data
2. open system.properties
3. ad following two lines

portal.https.port=9843

unifi.https.port=9443

is_default=false

Regards

applentoast

It's not the caldav/carddav services. I just noticed the same problem and I don't have those services enabled.

If you just point your browser at https://localhost:8443 you'll see a web management interface for Server itself. Nothing there is actually useful, but that's another story.

It seems to be coming from here:

downsample:~>sudo lsof -i tcp:8443

COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME

httpd 10449 root 13u IPv6 0x2233e860f31fe631 0t0 TCP *:pcsync-https (LISTEN)

httpd 10472 _www 13u IPv6 0x2233e860f31fe631 0t0 TCP *:pcsync-https (LISTEN)

httpd 10473 _www 13u IPv6 0x2233e860f31fe631 0t0 TCP *:pcsync-https (LISTEN)

httpd 10474 _www 13u IPv6 0x2233e860f31fe631 0t0 TCP *:pcsync-https (LISTEN)

httpd 10476 _www 13u IPv6 0x2233e860f31fe631 0t0 TCP *:pcsync-https (LISTEN)

httpd 10477 _www 13u IPv6 0x2233e860f31fe631 0t0 TCP *:pcsync-https (LISTEN)

httpd 10710 _www 13u IPv6 0x2233e860f31fe631 0t0 TCP *:pcsync-https (LISTEN)

downsample:~>ps ax | grep httpd

10449 ?? Ss 0:00.13 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf -E /private/var/log/apache2/service_proxy_error.log

10453 ?? Ss 0:00.16 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/services/ACSServer.conf -E /var/log/apache2/services/ACSServer_error_log

10471 ?? S 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/services/ACSServer.conf -E /var/log/apache2/services/ACSServer_error_log

10472 ?? S 0:00.14 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf -E /private/var/log/apache2/service_proxy_error.log

10473 ?? S 0:00.15 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf -E /private/var/log/apache2/service_proxy_error.log

10474 ?? S 0:00.09 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf -E /private/var/log/apache2/service_proxy_error.log

10476 ?? S 0:00.16 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf -E /private/var/log/apache2/service_proxy_error.log

10477 ?? S 0:00.06 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf -E /private/var/log/apache2/service_proxy_error.log

10710 ?? S 0:00.12 /usr/sbin/httpd -D FOREGROUND -f /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf -E /private/var/log/apache2/service_proxy_error.log

11677 s000 S+ 0:00.00 grep httpd

If you look in /Library/Server/Web/Config/Proxy/apache_serviceproxy.conf you'll see apache httpd configured to listen on a bunch of ports: 80, 443, 8008, 8800, 8443, 8843.

Editing that .conf file, commenting out the "Listen 8443" line, and "sudo killall httpd" seems to keep it off of 8443. I had to do the same thing for 8843 which the unifi controller apparently also wants. After that, and waiting a while (maybe for sockets in CONN_WAIT to close), I was able to start the unifi controller. Hopefully this stays fixed.

@applentoast,

Thanks for posting this. I've been searching the Ubiquity forums for a solution. Your's worked perfectly. -William

1. go to ~/Library/Application Support/UniFi/data
2. open system.properties
3. ad following two lines

portal.https.port=9843

unifi.https.port=9443

is_default=false

For me, turning off Profile Manager did it. I am not using it but was going to do some testing with it. Once I turned that off in Server Manager I was able to launch the UniFi App and open up the web management console.

One caveat with this solution... It only seems to work if you ran the Unifi controller software before upgrading to Server 5.0.15. If you do so afterwards, the system.properties file doesn't seem to get created. You get the error, but can't there's no file to edit.

In this case simply copy a system.properties file over from another installation, and apply the changes.

According to this web page it is an iCal service

<TCP and UDP ports used by Apple software products - Apple Support>

Matthew Hocker wrote:

I can't find the Server forum... does anyone have a link?

macOS Server

You should probably ask this in the OS X Server forum.

My guess is that you need to change the port where the ical service is located, but I am not familiar with how to do that.

Nice one @_metamatt_ I just finally updated to Server app v5.0.15 and my UniFi controller wouldn't load. This helped a lot. Thanks.

Do you or someone have config file I could get?

Did you still need this? I just solved this issue for my home stack. thanks to Marco