OOB Management of Cisco 2504

Hello,
I am wondering if this is possible, and how to execute.
We have a separate physical network for guest wireless access that we will be using a cisco 2504 controller and AP's. I wanted to manage the WLC from the corporate network, and wanted to have a management interface on our DMZ to allow 443 management from inside our corporate network.
I tried making the built in management interface on our corporate DMZ network, and another interface for the Guest Network, but I am unsuccessful:
Management port 1: 192.168.x.x
Dynamic interface port 2: 10.5.x.x
Once I enable Dynmaic AP management on the Guest network, I cant ping any devices on that network.
I also tried making a VLAN for the management network and another vlan for the Guest network and mapping them to the single built in management port, but I have been unsuccessful in that.

Hi,
ip http server
ip http authentication local
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