47.5. Changing the Port and Address

Usermin usually listens for connections on port 20000 on all of your system's IP addresses. You may need to change the port, perhaps because a firewall on your network only allows connections to web servers on the standard ports of 80 and 443. Changing the listening IP address can also be useful if your system has multiple network interfaces and you only want to allow connections on the interface connected to the internal LAN.

To change the port or address, do the following:

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Click on the Port and Address icon on the module's main page.
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To listen on only a specific interface address, select the second option in the Listen on IP address field and enter an IP address into the text box next to it. This must ...

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