Changing Nginx Ports

Edit the IBM Aspera Shares nginx.config file.

/opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/nginx.conf.

Update the HTTP and HTTPS server blocks with your desired ports.

These are the default settings for the two server blocks:

server {
    listen 80;
    listen [::]:80;
    return 301 https://$host$request_uri;
}
         
server {
    listen 443;
    listen [::]:443;

    ssl on;

    [...]
}

Update the values of the listen and rewrite directives with the desired ports (for example, 9080 and 9443).


server {
    listen 9080;
    listen [::]:9080;
    return 301 https://$host:9443$request_uri;
}
                    
server {
    listen 9443;
    listen [::]:9443;

    ssl on;

    [...]
}

Update passenger_pre_start directive with the new port.

/opt/aspera/shares/etc/nginx/conf.d/shares-pre-start.conf

Update the passenger_pre_start with your desired port. For example:

passenger_pre_start https://example.com:9443/;

Note: In versions older than 1.8, the passenger_pre_start directive is in the main nginx.conf file.

Reload the nginx.config file with the following command:

# /opt/aspera/shares/sbin/nginx -s reload