How to Configure the IISADMPWD Pages for Different Ports

ID: Q240654

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
Microsoft Internet Information Services version 5.0

SUMMARY

Microsoft IIS includes 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 describe how to modify these pages to work on other ports.

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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

Open each of these 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 to.

Likewise, each URL that begins with "https://<%iis.SERVER_NAME%>" should be changed to read "https://<%iis.SERVER_NAME%>:PORT2," where PORT2 is the secure (SSL) port that the Web site is listening to.

For related information on this topic, please see the following Knowledge Base articles:

Q184058 Unable to Change Password Using the IIS 4.0 Change Password Feature

Q184619 How to Change Windows NT Account Passwords Using Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0

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Version : winnt:4.0,5.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbhowto