Profile manager - Can i change the Port?

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Profile manager - Can i change the Port?

Dear Community,

i have a little problem. A Customer uses a OSX Server (El Capitan Vers. 10.11.2 + Server Version 5.0.15).

The Problem is, there is an Exchange-Server which uses Port 443, so i cant use this port.

My first Try was a Port Forwarding from ingoing:8443 to macserver:443. I can reach the server, but when i log in, then he redirects me to the default-ssl port 443.

I checked the httpd-ssl config, took a look in other apache-configs... changed the ports from 443 to 8443... but no success....

How would you do that? Someone had the same problem?

Thank you in advance 🙂

OS X Server

Posted on Jan 14, 2016 5:41 AM

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John Lockwood

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Jan 15, 2016 6:17 AM in response to BCCray

No you can't change the ports Profile Manager uses. Even if you could change the ports on the Profile Manager server end you have absolutely no chance of being able to change the equivalent settings built-in to iOS devices etc.

Having two or more different public IP addresses so that the Exchange server can have its own without conflicting with the Profile Manager is an option most bigger organisations would use.

It maybe that using a reverse-proxy server would also be an option. The reverse-proxy server would forward the 443 traffic to whichever server it is for by looking at the URL, e.g exchange.domain.com:443 gets forwarded to that server, and mdm.domain.com:443 gets forwarded to the other.

NGINX is the leading reverse-proxy server software.

PS. While it is not possible to reverse or forward proxy the other ports used for Profile Manager i.e. the APNS ports, it is possible to reverse-proxy the standard web ports of 80 and 443.

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