Ports are still closed even after port forwarding?

KeepingTally24

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Firstly , i do apologize if this is in the wrong place but i wasn't 100% sure where to put this issue.
To start,I'm trying to open 3 ports. 80,22,and 21.I managed to port forward through my router and
through my firewall but i'm still having issues and showing on my end as all of these ports being closed.
Here are some screenshots.

(this is from my firewall) https://i.imgur.com/jlo0TVv.png

(this is from my provider) https://i.imgur.com/wFma1cG.png

I don't understand at this point what the issue is or why my ports are still closed.
 

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A couple of things to test.

- First of all, does a local connection work? From that very same machine, try to connect to the servers. This tests if the services are effectively running.
- Then, do they work if you connect from another computer within the local network? This checks the firewall settings and network configurations.
- Then test from outside the network, from internet. This will verify the port forwarding itself.

As with all port forwardings, be sure to have a fixed local IP on the target computer, and configure this in the router. Note that it's always possible that your ISP is blocking connections at their infrastructure, if that's happens to be the case, you'll need to ask them in addition to the port forward.
 

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You also need to have somthing running on those ports to answer any requests
 

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Yeah, you're ISP may be blocking those ports since those are no, no ports in terms of a residential customer. Those ports also need to be forwarded to a computer IP in your LAN your server or what ever is hosting this server. You can check for open ports at many places. Try the following two:

GRC | ShieldsUP! — Internet Vulnerability Profiling

Online Port Scanner with Nmap - Discover open TCP ports | Pentest-Tools.com

To test whether your ISP is blocking ports, temporally turn off your Windows firewall completely and temporally put your computer's IP in the DMZ in the router/modem and run GRC's Shields up.

Now here's the thing. Those ports are a hack nightmare and if you're running Xamapp there or what ever it is you're doing, you should deploy the firewall Pfsense. And if your SAPI and OS (Litespeed, Apache, Ubuntu, CentOS, etc) alows it, use Fail2Ban. This job is much easier with webmin. A GUI point and click interface. You can go to a website called Shodan and this too will let you know if you have open ports providing your WAN IP is IPv4. Censys is another site to try. Between these two websites, this is the hackers holy grail with finding crap like web cams, vulnerable servers, SCADA systems, even satellite links to name a few. If you use their services just don't be stupid and pull -- a stupid. You don't want law enforcement putting you in a little prison cell for God knows how long. Just a warning for anyone reading this.
 

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If you are in fact using Xampp, WampServer, etc, that is really not meant for online web deployment. It can be used, but you need to read all of the documentation on deploying Xampp for online use at Xampp's website due to security considerations. It's great for your own local home website though. :D I was thinking of creating a home Wikipedia or phpBB forum. LOL

If you want to host a website, then it would be far better to go with an online host. You can pay around $5/month for a shared account. The domain cost is yearly for around $10/year depending on the domain name. There's free hosts but I'd stay away from those since they will have poor performance and not allow many SAPI modules and what have you. phpmail may be one of them. Check out webhostingtalk.com to research web hosts. Stay away from Hostgator, Bluehost or GoDaddy. There are much, much better providers. Believe me. Being a big company doesn't mean they are great. It means they may over sell server capacity and have terrible customer support, etc. I know because I've read the stories.

If you're not trying to run a web server, then what are you trying to do? I could give you some possible advice that could help do it if your ISP blocks ports. But I need to try it myself, it's more of an idea/theory.
 

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