Switching ports

[IlyaRabyy]

Colleagues,
Since the response to my previous Q. re. web apps security was "it's not in the code" (thank you again, StrongM!), here's the next Q., but I need to explain something 1st:
We use internal I-net (VPN, no outside access), and the exchange goes through port 80.
Our Cyber-security Dept. tells us this port is not secure, and demands us to switch to the secure one (apparently - port 443).
We tried to find it in IIS settings - couldn't.
And (finally!) the question is: where/how we can switch our website from using port 80 to using port 443?
(If it sounds like child's blabbering - that's due to my ignorance in these things: I have never been a Sys Admin, only an application programmer/developer...)

TIA!

Regards,

Ilya

 

[strongm]

Ilyas

Port 80 = HTTP
Port 443 = HTTPS


Your webserver ought to have options to bind a site to one or both these ports. How i=one does that differs depending on which webserver you are using. But there is more to it than that. You'll start needing certificates, for example. Again, this is NOT a coding issue, this is something that should be managed by whoever is responsible for your webserver. If that is you, then you may have some reading to do ...

 

[IlyaRabyy]

Thank you!
It looks like we need to find something like "IIS Admin Guide"!

P.S. My name is spelled "I L Y A" (no "S" at the end) - non taken! ;-)

Regards,

Ilya

 

[strongm]

>no "S" at the end

Yeah, a typo I'm afraid. Sorry.

>ome reading to do
Here's a possible starting point

 

[IlyaRabyy]

Thank you, StrongM!
I watched this video tutorial - might be quite helpful! (Gotta watch it again and make it into a DOC.)
One thing, though: the sound cut off somewhere in the middle... but I'll find the way around that (I hope).


Regards,

Ilya