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How to change Central Administration website URL – even after messing up AAM

I made a not so funny mess-up today. I changed the Alternate Access Mappings for my virtual machines Central Administration website, but I made a mistake in the url. Then when I wanted to change it back I couldn’t load up Central Admin.

I made the url mosstest.com but it should have been moss-test.com.

To fix it I could have just added mosstest.com in the hosts file under c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts but I wanted to figure out what else could be done.

Basically I found out that the Url for central admin can be sorted out by going to 2 places.

1: Edit URL for Central Administration website using Regedit

Go to:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Shared Tools\Web Server Extensions\12.0\WSS
Edit the key: CentralAdministrationURL. Choose whatever url you want.
Actually Central admin isn’t really the site you would rename the most, but in my case I wanted it to reflect the same FQDN as our main company SharePoint uses, even though it’s not accessible from the outside.

2: Edit the bindings for the IIS website (IIS 7 example)

Go to the IIS Manager (Start -> Administrative Tools -> Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager)

Find the site for Central Admin. It’s called SharePoint Central Administration v3 by default.

Right-click it and choose Edit Bindings.
Select the item in the list (there’s probably only one, unless you manually changed it) and click Edit.

The Port should probably not be changed, but do change the Host name to reflect your newly chosen name.

This should be it, but please be aware that as soon as you access a local IIS website using anything but the servername, you will need to deactivate Local Loopback Check for that url.

Read this post on how to do that.

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By Code-Journey – September 26, 2009

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    [...] If you mess up the address to central admin and can’t access it, even after this fix, take a look at the binding, and then you can change the URL for it. Read this post. [...]



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