How to Prevent Veeam Reverse Proxy Service From Locking Port 80

KB ID: 4868
Product: Veeam Backup & Replication | 13.1
Published: 2026-07-31
Last Modified: 2026-07-31
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Purpose

The Veeam Reverse Proxy Service, a component of Veeam Backup & Replication, binds to port 80 by default in order to redirect HTTP requests to HTTPS on port 443.

This article explains how to disable HTTPS redirection so that the service listens only on port 443, allowing port 80 to be closed on the Veeam Backup Server.

Solution

To prevent the Veeam Reverse Proxy Service from listening on port 80, disable HTTPS redirection:

  1. On the Veeam Backup & Replication server, open the following file in a text editor:
    C:\ProgramData\Veeam\ReverseProxy\Config\appsettings.json
  2. Within the Service section, add the DisableHttpsRedirection parameter and set it to true. A comma must be added to the end of the preceding line.
    After the change, the Service section will appear as follows:
    "Service": {
      "Port": 443,
      "TlsHandshakeTimeout": "00:00:30",
      "DisableHttpsRedirection": true
    }
    
  3. Save the file.
  4. Restart the Veeam Reverse Proxy Service.
  5. In Windows Firewall, disable the inbound rule Veeam Reverse Proxy Service (Https redirection) (In).

    Alternatively, the firewall rule can be disabled using the following PowerShell command:
Disable-NetFirewallRule -DisplayName "Veeam Reverse Proxy Service (Https redirection) (In)"

Verification

The change can be confirmed in the following log:
C:\ProgramData\Veeam\ReverseProxy\Logs\service.log

After the service restart, only the HTTPS listeners are present:

[INF]   Now listening on: https://localhost:443
[INF]   Now listening on: https://[::]:443

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