Plesk on :8443 vs :8880?

[kccricket]

I've noticed that there seems to be two different ports I can access Plesk from on my VPS. Port 8443 serves a "Virtuozzo enabled" version of Plesk that simply says "Login to Plesk 7" on the login page. The version on port 8880 does not seem to integrate with Virtuozzo and says "Login To Plesk 7.5 Reloaded" on the login page.

nmap says that port 8443 is serving with Apache2. Port 8880 is using Apache1 and seems to be using php3.

Apart from what I've mentioned above, what's the difference between these two "versions" of Plesk? Why would I (or my clients) use 8880 over 8443?

If the one on 8880 is not beneficial to me, is there some way I can disable it short of simply firewalling it off?

[Ray]

One major difference between the two is that port 8443 is on a secure socket, while 8880 is not. Other than that, the major differences appear to only include what you've already mentioned.

I'm not sure why 8443 is reporting Apache 2 and 8880 is reporting Apache 1. My guess would be that SWSoft either simply did not update port 8880 to use the newer versions, or more likely, that they left it there so you could access the control panel in the event of Apache or PHP not working properly.

I do not know of any easy way to turn this off, other than figuring out which processes are running the 8880 version and disabling that.