Enabling HTTP Server on Cisco IOS Routers

2W1ETN — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:05:34 +0000

Enabling the HTTP server on Cisco Routers is easily done using the console port or via an SSH connection.

You might wonder why you’d want the HTTP server running; well you need it if you want to install SDM (Cisco Router and Security Device Manager)

To enable the web server logon or connect via terminal

Then type the command

enable

Then type

config

Press enter to config from the terminal when prompted

You should see a prompt like (Which is the config prompt):

Router(config)#

Enter the following commands

ip http server
ip http secure-server
ip http authentication local

If you intend to install SDM or want to be able to access the router from SSH then you need to add a user account as below:

Username sdm privilege 15 password 0 sdm

That will create a user with the username and password of SDM

If you haven’t enabled SSH and or telnet do so using the following commands:
line vty 0 4
login local
transport input telnet ssh

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