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Exchange 2003 OWA stopped working externally
We have a SBS 2003 server. For years we have been using OWA with self signed certificate. To login to OWA we used to use https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/exchange. I recently (few weeks ago) I installed a SSL certficate and everything was working fine until the server was rebooted yesterday. There was some updates applied during reboot. FYI. After I configured SSL, I did not reboot the server. This was the first time server rebooted since SSL change. Now we can not access OWA externally. I checked internally and use http://servername/exchange and that logs me directly into OWA mailbox of current user logged in. For example, if I use http;//username/exchange on a user workstation, it will log me directly into that user without a login prompt like we were used to seeing. So what I am really concerned about is the external link to OWA not working. Can anyone shed some light on my issue? I will provide more info as needed. Thank you.
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I port forwarded 443 to server IP. No ISA on SBS. Error I receive is "The page cannot be found" HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found.
try to access it using IP address, what happen ?
also check the router (firewall) settings, make sure it forward to the correct server.
also check the router (firewall) settings, make sure it forward to the correct server.
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I tried using IP address and get same exact error message. I just double checked firewall settings and they are correct.
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I also tried resetting default virtual directories for OWA using method 2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/883380
Can you verify your public IP and then verify external URL IP?
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Hi Spartan:
What do you mean? Our public IP has not changed and external URL IP is https://remote.domain.com. An A record is setup pointing to server public IP.
What do you mean? Our public IP has not changed and external URL IP is https://remote.domain.com. An A record is setup pointing to server public IP.
Did you have any redirects setup? Can you look at your firewall/router and verify that the traffic is being properly routed to the server?
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No redirects. Firewall is configured properly
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If I use external https://remote.domain.com without /exchange in url; it brings me to our old hosted website on our sbs server. If I use /exchange I get the error mentioned. Also I can see the certificate I setup when accessing either urls
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Any experts out there with new suggestions???
Had you tried iisrset ?
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Just tried iisreset and still have same issue
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i resolved my own problem
what is the error message you get?