Forwarding HTTPS on Thomson 585v7

Recently moved home and sgned up for Be There Broadband.  This service comes with a Be branded Thomson 585v7 Router, which is a very basic and horrid bit of kit.  While it is self explanatory using the basic web interface to this device to forward ports and services to the correct machine on your LAN, I found I could not forward port 443 (HTTPS) even though I had set up the rules to do so.

The reason why is that the router is using an HTTPS service for itself (I believe remote administration) so will not forward requests on port 443, and this cannot be turned off in the web interface yet it still gives you the option to forward this port.

The solution is to disable the HTTPS service on the router and to do this we need to use Telnet.

telnet 192.168.1.254

You wil be prompted for your User name which is Administrator the default password is bank but if you have set up a password in the Web Interface you will have to enter it here.

Next turn off HTTPS service

service system modify name=HTTPs state=disabled
saveall

Thats it.  Now you should be able to forward port 443