How to change secure port for WebAccess running on SLES12 for GW18.

Since securing WebAccess running on Linux is about securing apache web server, changes to achieve that goal need to be done in few apache configuration files:

1. /etc/apache2/listen.conf file.

Here make sure that listen is set to 8080 and SSL listen port to 8443.

2. /etc/apache2/vhosts.d/vhost-ssl.conf

Set VirtualHost_default_  parameter to 8443

3. /etc/apache2/conf.d/rewrite.conf

Add a port number parameter to the last line, i.e. like:

RewriteRule ^/?(.*) https://%{SERVER_NAME}:8443/$1 [R,L]

Stop and restart apache web server to take effect of those changes.

Then if you hit:

http://<ip_web>:8080/gw

it gets redirected to:

https://<ip_web>:8443/gw/webacc

and you shall get a login page of WebAccess site.