SSL port not staying in.

[paul123456]

We have two Web sites. 1 is for the internal web site which is used by internal use only. the secondary web site is our exchange web site so that employees can access email from home. in our firewall we blocked any http access from outside and only allowed for ssl port 443 to come through. Now our internal web site is configured to listen on port 444 (since this isn't allowed through the internet it won't pass through) and the secondary exchange site listens on port 443 (this works) our users are able to log in securely log in fine to exchange and everything works but the problem i am having is when i restart the server. when i restart the ssl port on the secondary web site dissappears? heres what i have tried. assinging the certificate to the secondary web site directly instead of the default(internal) tried a netstat -a to see if anything else was listening on ssl port 443. I need help please if anyone has seen this problem please post. In the mean time i'll keep searching and keep u posted.

Thanks, PAUL

 

[paul123456]

Do you really? hey what programs do you have installed? also what antivirus? are u running exchange? maybe we can compare a bit...I got an idea that might fix the problem but first want to try to fix what i have going. can you tell me what your experiencing?

Thanks, PAUL

 

[6GiG]

Same problem here.

When I configure forms authentication, it tells me to configure SSL. I use IIS Admin to create a cert request and assign the cert to the web site, then assign 443 as the SSL port. After restarting the server, the Exchange services delete the SSL listener port.

Another note. This is an Exchange 2003 Front End and the SSL port box is greyed out for the virtual server when using the Exchange Manager. If the box was not grayed out, I'm sure I could change the port here and then the Exchange services started, the SSL listener port would stick.