setup ssl and different port

glennbtn · 03-25-2011, 12:00 PM

Hi All

We have a server which currently is blocked with iptables. I would like to give customers access to just their section of a website on ssl and a different port to reduce hacking. ie /var/www/html/customer

Can anyone give me some basic instructions about how I would go allowing the customer to access there part on an ssl but say port 4443. Don't done any of this before or enabled ssl on centos/apache2

Thanks

Glenn

corp769 · 03-26-2011, 04:53 AM

I have this done on my personal server. On the server itself, in iptables, I block access to port 80, and leave 443 open. Now on my router, I have both 80 and 443 blocked, and I enabled port forwarding for the port of my choice to port 443 on my server. Then in a web browser, you need to force https to use a different port as such:
https://www.examplehost.com:666