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Racharla_Chandr
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Sep 09, 2015

Enable port 80 and redirect to 443 to access configuration utility of bigip

Hi All,   Currently my f5 configuration utility (GUI) is accessible only through https ie. https://bigip1.xyz.com. Now if i try to connect using since port 80 is not open, it is giving me connect...
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Chase_Abbott
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Sep 09, 2015
Why not only connect via https then? Never use http://xxx and you'll never be blocked. It's the management interface so it shouldn't be publicly available and optimally protected by some management network, so only admins that know they should be hitting https are your target audience, correct?