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HOW TO: Configure the IISADMPWD Pages for Different Ports

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We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 7.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2008. IIS 7.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx

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For more information about IIS 7.0, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.iis.net/default.aspx?tabid=1

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SUMMARY

This step-by-step article describes how to change passwords on a Web server that is running on a port other than 80.

Introduction

Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 and Internet Information Services (IIS) 5.0 include Administration Web pages that allow users to change passwords only when a Web server is running on the IIS default port of 80. This article describes how to modify these pages to work on other ports.

By default, the IIS installation creates a folder in the following location:

%SYSTEMROOT%\system32\inetsrv\iisadmpwd

The following files are then copied to that folder:

Achg.htr
Aexp.htr
Aexp2.htr
Aexp2b.htr
Aexp3.htr
Aexp4.htr
Aexp4b.htr
Anot.htr
Anot3.htr

Configure the Pages for Different Ports

Open each of the pages and search the text for the following string:
<%iis.SERVER_NAME%>
For each occurrence of this text, if the URL begins with "http://<%iis.SERVER_NAME%>" change it to read "http://<%iis.SERVER_NAME%>:PORT1," where PORT1 is the port that the Web site is listening on.
Likewise, change each URL that begins with "https://<%iis.SERVER_NAME%>" to read "https://<%iis.SERVER_NAME%>:PORT2," where PORT2 is the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) port that the Web site is listening on.