Package Server is not serving HTTPS codebases after changing computer hostname

Products

• IT Management Suite

Issue/Introduction

• After changing the hostname of the site server with package services, it stopped serving HTTP(S) codebases

• Package Server is configured to publish HTTP(s) codebases, but could not access it's own Web site.

Environment

ITMS 8.X

Cause

• When checking the SSL bindings for the Default Web Site, noticed the certificate used to bind the port 443 still has the old hostname listed. This caused a mismatch between the certificate's issued to name and the computer's actual FQDN.

Resolution

This can be corrected by forcing the NS to reconfigure the site binding for the site server:

Go to Settings > Notification Server > Site Server Settings

Expand the Site Server, then select Certificates Rollout > Override the Global Settings by custom settings.

Enable Install intranet certificate check box, verify existing port used to bind HTTPS traffic and enable the Force overwrite HTTPS binding option

Verify the FQDN in the Hosts field then enable this policy and save changes