How To: Stop SQL Server Reporting Services from using Port 80 on your Server [Field Notes]

Problem:

SSRS (SQL Server Reporting Services) uses port 80 by default on any server it’s installed on.

This is crazy annoying, because you may want to have web servers or other application servers that also use the default http port 80.

Running netstat -ano from the command line at this point usually shows you that port 80 is in use by PID 4 (the system process).

Solution

Fortunately, this isn’t too hard to fix:

• Log on to the server that hosts SSRS.
• Go to Start > Programs > SQL Server 2008 R2 > Configuration Tools > Reporting Services Configuration Manager
• Connect to the server in question (usually your local server)
• Go to the Web Service URL section
• Change the TCP port to an open port other than port 80 (81 happened to work on my server) and hit Apply
• Go to the Report Manager URL section
• Click Advanced
• Click the entry with a TCP port of 80 and then click the Edit button.
• Change the TCP Port entry to the same thing you changed it to in the Web Service URL section previously and Click OK.
• Click OK again.

At this point, running netstat -ano should not show an entry for port 80.