We define a new Windows firewall rule for some program to accept inbound TCP connections on some port. This can be done using either netsh.exe utility or Powershell New-NetFirewallRule cmdlet. For ...

When I run my expo/react-native project and want to run it on my android phone through the expo go app, it gives me a connection error: "Uncaught Error: java.net.SocketTimeoutException: failed...

I need to open up the Windows Firewall for outbound connections for an application I'm writing. The best answers I've been able to locate are here: http://www.shafqatahmed.com/2008/01/controllin...

A little background: Basicaly I'd like to add a program firewall access rule to both private and public networks. I used to use this- "netsh firewall add allowedprogram program= "Path.." name=AppN...

My firewall is configured to deny all inbound and outbound traffic unless a rule says otherwise. This answer suggests making rules for git.exe, sh.exe, and ssh.exe. So I did. Even bash.exe. S...

I want to programme my own anti-distraction tool. I can not / do not want to use the hosts file or third-party apps. When using IPsec or Windows Firewall, it only accepts IP addresses. There is you...

My Windows service needs to create/remove certain rules from the Windows firewall. For this I interface with NetFwTypeLib in <windows>\system32\hnetcfg.dll via COM. It works great on my 64-bi...

I recently installed MySQL 5 on Windows 2003 and tried configuring an instance. Everything worked fine until I got to "Applying Security settings", at which point it gave me the above error (Can't ...

I'm working on a Rest API with Go, but everytime I try to run my application with go run main.go the Windows Firewall tells me that has blocked some features of my app. I would like to know if t...

I'm trying to find if a firewall rule already existing, with the same name, same configuration, like: localport. So I use Get-NetFirewallRule to list all rules, but the rules returned do not cont...

I have a workstation with Win 10 on which I installed OpenSSH server. If I try to connect to it (from another machine with Win 10 using ssh in a command prompt) I see it gives the following error: ...

I would like a Express REST API to be accessible over a LAN. From what I understand I will need to make some changes in my firewall to allow this access. I managed to solve this checking the second...

I am trying to programmatically create an Outbound Windows firewall rule. In addition, I'd like to programmatically enable and disable this rule. How can I go about doing this in C#? Manually, I ca...

I have installed Jenkins in Windows server 2012 64-bit machine and want to make it available in internal network. I have added --httpListenAddress to 0.0.0.0 and restarted Jenkins and tried to acc...

So I'm trying to add .webp image support for a WordPress site, which is run on IIS. Now the image exists on the server and the file name is correct but when I try to load the image via URL address...

I'm trying to host a website on my own remote server (running on windows server2012, I'm using Apache as my web server but port 80 is being used by another program (which also needs to be running) ...

I have been trying to find some way of redirecting outbound TCP packets under windows, but so far have not been successful. Does anyone know of any software/code bit that would do something like th...

I am able to pro grammatically add individual rules to the Windows Firewall (Server 2008 R2), however I am trying to avoid multiple rules per IP address, and would just like to update the existing ...

After launching my Node.js App which also requires BrowserSync everything is working fine and I can access the App via localhost:3000 and the given IPv4 address on the same machine running the app....

I have a box with Windows Server 2008 and IIS 7, and I'm using an ASP.NET app. I am trying to run multiple sites from one IP, but I can't access the sites from the outside. I can only access the D...

I have some .Net core microservices which I am currently running with dotnet xyz.dll. They currently run and work fine however in order for one to talk to the other I of course need firewall excep...

Just finally updated to Win7 from XP. I am using Windows Firewall with added Tinywall (gives more control) But when I use Git Bash, the firewall blocks all commands. If I disable the firewall then...

I am adding a windows firewall rule using netsh advfirewall firewall command in a setup program. My code is giving an error message if the system has windows firewall disabled. So I need to check ...

I've Windows Firewall with Inbound and Outbound rules enabled. In android studio, I'm getting "Connection to the internet denied" error while gradle syncing etc. Already allowed studio.exe to conne...

I need to open specific port for my application. I have tried using INetFwAuthorizedApplication rule per application for all ports. fwMgr.LocalPolicy.CurrentProfile.AuthorizedApplications.Add(app...