Can you move WHM to another port?

sfriday022

• December 17, 2021 12:52

Just wondering can you move WHM to another port like 8443... so that it can be used outside of our own domain? Alternatively can WHM listen on more than one port? 2086/2087 and 8443?

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  cPanelAnthony

  • December 17, 2021 19:47

  Hello! Unfortunately, it would not be a setup cPanel supports. Many processes rely on port 2087 and there wouldn't be a safe way to change it or add additional ports. What do you mean exactly by "it can be used outside of our own domain"? Can you elaborate on why you need to change the ports? I might be able to offer some more advice.

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  sfriday022

  • December 17, 2021 20:24

  Well 2087 is fine on your own WAN... but if you want to reach 2087 at a public site, usually they only support 80,443,8080,and 8443... thus it would be helpful if 8080/8443 could also listen to the domain administration capabilities of cpanel. Alternatively we have to build a cpanel GW service from something like NGINX to remap 80 to 2087 for a specific url. For example you could have a proxied service for whm.capitoltechnology.us which mapped from NGINX to 2087.... so I wanted to ask the question before I designed a proxy environment.

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  sfriday022

  • December 17, 2021 20:26

  It would look like this: whm.capitoltechnology.us:80/443 would proxy to internal-whm.capitoltechnology.us:2096/2097... this requires to build a new website proxy which is a non-trivial task for the average user and doesnt come out of the box that way from cpanel (which I highly recommend).

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  cPanelAnthony

  • December 24, 2021 19:26

  Thank you for these updates. It might be worth submitting a feature request using the link in my signature.

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