2x Port 80 websites, single external IP?

Over Clocker · 26 Feb 2010 at 12:46

Hi guys, we are running 2 websites on port 80, on 2 different servers. Sharepoint, and Outlook Web Access.

However, we only have 1 external facing IP address. Our firewall is currently set to forward port 80 to the Exchange server for OWA. Is there any way that we can do some sort of redirection so that we can open Sharepoint up externally, or will we need to change the port to 8080 for Sharepoint?

Cheers,

Mal

King Arthur · 26 Feb 2010 at 12:53

The only option is to get a bank of external ip's

Or if you router supports it, use the port redirection feature.

Or the other option is to simply change the port of share point to say 800 and then create a dns record redirecting people the new port.

Or if your using a SBS server then simply use remote web work place as that saves all the above hassle.

Phil

Over Clocker · 26 Feb 2010 at 13:26

Thanks for tips mate. Would you mind elaborating a bit on the 2nd option - to create a DNS entry to redirect to the new port?

Thanks,

Mal

Andyt_uk · 26 Feb 2010 at 14:05

DNS wont redirect to a different port as far as I'm aware. You'd problably need to use something along the lines of Host Header names if you're using IIS, i've not used it in the past but its what a quick google is throwing back at the mo.

King Arthur · 26 Feb 2010 at 15:12

just create a sub domain i.e http://sharepoint.websitenamehere.com and point it to https://websitename:800 (change the port to what ever you want and ensure you change it on IIS too to ensure it responds to it and also port forward on your router)

Phil

Biffa · 26 Feb 2010 at 16:07

or better yet put OWA on SSL

Poing 443 to the OWA and 80 to Sharepoint.

J.B · 26 Feb 2010 at 16:33

Biffa said:
or better yet put OWA on SSL

Poing 443 to the OWA and 80 to Sharepoint.

This is how I'd do it.

Over Clocker · 26 Feb 2010 at 19:35

This is what I have done now. The reason that I didn't do this to begin with was that users are used to just typing mail.blahblac.co.uk which redirects them to the https:// site, but I've redirected it another way now instead.

Cheers for the pointers,

Mal

Biffa · 26 Feb 2010 at 22:36

Sharepoint runs on IIS right?

The way I'd do it is have the IIS server with Sharepoint setup so it has two web sites, the http://sharepoint.blah.com one and another one called http://mail.blah.com both on port 80 using host headers.

mail.blah.com just redirects to https://webmail.blah.com whereas http://sharepoint.blah.com stays on the server.

Hope this makes sense, its been a while since I played with a sharepoint install but I think its on IIS

Check out host headers on IIS