Change the URL of the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration

How to Change the URL of the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration

Thanks  Mayank                              

 

Well this is a very common question all over the internet. Changing the URL of a SharePoint web application is quite simple, and just involves removing and re-extending the application from IIS web application after changing the Binding of the IIS Web Application. But the same methodology cannot be applied to Central Administration. Lets see how to change the URL of the central administration to differ from the server FQDN.

In order to change the URL of the Central Administration follow the steps below.

1. Create an entry of the new Central Administration URL in the Domain Name Server. For this example we will configure the Central Administration to open on http://sharepointconfig.mydomain.com
   
   

   Note : For details on how to add a DNS Entry refer to my earlier post Creating a New DNS Entry : Configuring Application URL

2. In the Central Administration Site go to System Settings> Configure alternate access mappings.
3. Here from the Lists of URL(s), click on the current URL of the Central Administrator.
4. In the “Edit Internal URL” Form change the value of the “URL protocol, host and port” to the new URL that you’d like to configure.
5. Press OK
6. Next Fire up the IIS Manager and select the application running your SharePoint Central Administration Its generally named “SharePoint Central Administration v4”. Click ok Binding as illustrated below .
7. In the Site Binding window that opens up, click on edit. Enter the details as illustrated.
8. Click Ok and do a IISRESET.

That is all it takes, We have successfully configured the central admin to work at http://sharepointconfig.mydomain.com. Congratulations