ArcGIS Server Standalone 11.3 - locked out of admin interface (set HTTP only but port 6080 redirect to 6443)

[GertConradie]

Hi 

After an server upgrade from 10.9.1 to 11.3, im sort of locked out of all admin interfaces. The server was (and still is set to HTTP only), but any requests to port 6080 is being redirected to 6443 after which it fails.

The next step planned was to enable the server for http AND https, but now i cant get into the admin interface.

Is there any way how i can prevent this redirect to port 6443 to happen, or manually in files enable the server for http & https?

Any help will be appreciated.

[ChrisUnderwood]

Hello @GertConradie , regarding this detail - "redirected to 6443 after which it fails." - in what way does it fail ? Is there any error message or browser error etc. I think you will need to address this for your HTTPS requests, even if you eventually use both HTTP & HTTPS.

[GertConradie · Accepted solution]

Apologies Chris, only saw the notification now.

I resolved it with a clean re-installation. But realized what was happening:

There was a DNS record setup in the host file on the server. During the installation when the self-signed SSL certificate is created, it must be doing some sort of reversed lookup of the IP (I have no better explanation ) and created the SSL cert for that record, instead of for the local machine name.

The browser block the SSL because of the cert and with only Edge on the server it was not easy to get past that.

Installed Chrome, allowed the invalid cert etc - then re-created a new correct self-signed cert in the ArcGIS admin interface for the server name. The parameters for that took some experimentation to get it right, but do-able.