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Configuring the Default HTTP and HTTPS Port for Siebel Web Server

The default HTTP and HTTPS port for Web server are port 80 and 443, respectively. When you deploy SWSE onto third-party Web server, you might want to configure these to use a different port numbers. The following procedure provides the steps to configure these ports.

To configure the default HTTP and HTTPS

1. Open the eapps.cfg file.
2. Locate the [defaults] section.
3. Change the port number for HTTPPort and HTTPSPort to a desired port number.

   HTTPPort = 81
   HTTPSPort = 444

4. Configure the Web Server.

   HTTP port for both HP-UX Apache and IBM AIX Apache Web server

   1. Using any text editor, open the $SWEAPP_ROOT/conf/httpd.conf file.
   2. Locate the Listen section and change the HTTP port number to the number you set in Step 3.

   Listen HostIP:81

   where:

   HostIP = The IP Address of the Web Server

   3. Change the ServerName value to the same value as the one for Listen.

   ServerName HostIP:81

   HTTPS port for HP-UX Apache

   1. Using any text editor, open the $SWEAPP_ROOT/conf/ssl.conf file.
   2. Change the HTTPS port numbers in the following section to the port number you set in Step 3.

   Listen 444
   <VirtualHost_default_:444>
   SSLEngine on

   HTTPS port for IBM AIX Apache Web server

   1. Using any text editor, open the $SWEAPP_ROOT/conf/httpd.conf file.
   2. Add the following section before the Virtual Directories section to enable SSL.

   LoadModule ibm_ssl_module modules/mod_ibm_ssl.so
   Listen HostIP:444

   where:

   HostIP = The IP Address of the Web Server

   3. Add the following section at the end of the httpd.conf file, before the Virtual Directories section.

   <VirtualHost HostIP:444>
   SSLEnable
   DocumentRoot $home/$build/web/htdocs/en_US
   ErrorLog logs/ssl_error_log
   CustomLog logs/ssl_access_log common

   </VirtualHost>
   Keyfile $home/$build/web/ssl/key.kdb

   Sun ONE Web Server

   1. Using the Sun ONE Web Server Admin console, go to the Preferences screen.
   2. Click on the Edit Listen Sockets tab and change the port number to the new value you set in Step 3.