Accessing Plesk control panel on standard SSL port

[thewolf]

Hi,

I am running Plesk 7 Reloaded on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.

A few clients cannot use the Plesk control panel, since their corporate firewall doesn't allow outbound connections to non-standard ports, like port 8443 used by the Plesk web server.

Is there any way to access the Plesk control panel using the standard SSL port (443)?

Thanks.

 

[hardweb]

All you have to do is to change the apache file /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.conf

 

[thewolf]

Originally posted by hardweb
All you have to do is to change the apache file /usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.conf

That will conflict with the SSL port used by domains on the server, unless you use a dedicated IP address for the control panel web server.

I wish Plesk provided a way to access the control panel on standard SSL port, e.g. https://mydomain.com/panel/

Thanks.

 

[jspilon]

isnt there a way to setup something like

https://mydomain.com/panel/

to point to the control panel ?!

 

[hardweb]

You can do this only if you make Plesk answer to a specific IP and disable this IP for hosting. In this case you have to modify only in:

/usr/local/psa/admin/conf/httpsd.conf

The Listen directive.

 

[jamesyeeoc]

Changing the 'Listen' directive will solve a part of the problem, making the control panel listen and respond on a port other than 8443.

To be able to browse to a URL such as https://mydomain.com/panel/ or https://panel.mydomain.com would also require the use of Rewrite conditions/rules or possibly 'Redirect permanent' directive.

There are other posts on the forums dealing with each part of this question. If I had more time right now I'd do the searching and post links, but I don't...

 

[jspilon]

so i can create some directive for /panel to symlink to the control panel?!

could someone walk me through ?