How to change Central Admin Web site port (WSS 3.0)

Summary of Issue

How to change the Central Administration Web site port number after SharePoint has already been installed.

Methods to resolve the problem

Instructions

1. You have to be a member of SharePoint Farm Administrators group.
2. You can only change the Central Admin Website port using stsadm command-line tool.
3. To find out the current port number run:

user@computer:$ stsadm –o getadminport

4. To change the port number, use the following command:

user@computer:$ stsadm –o setadminport –port <port> [-ssl] [-admapcreatenew] [-admapidname] <application pool name>

Tested

July 2010

Sources

• http://erickoo.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/how-to-change-central-admin-web-site-port-wss-3-0/