I followed the instructions below using ufw, it worked fine and tested instantly for ports 80 and 22, but for 443 I get Connection refused on the test, and no ufw block or in syslog or sign of attempt in auth.log.
Does DO block 443 on their own?
$ sudo ufw status | grep 443
To Action From
443/tcp ALLOW Anywhere 443/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6)
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/opening-a-port-on-linux
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Hi @phobrain,
Port 443 is not being blocked by DigitalOcean. I would assume that you do not have anything listening to port 443 and thus you can’t connect to it.
Additionally, I’ll assume you are using either Apache or Nginx. You’ll need to configure a vhost and in there say that your WebService should listen on port 443 for secure connections. The easiest way would be to install Let’s Encrypt and let it configure it automatically for you.
Hello @phobrain
DigitalOcean will not block this port on your droplet in any case.
Have in mind that even opening the port will need a service listening on it in order to load/open any resource, e.g a web server like Apache/Nginx needs to be configured to listen on this port in order to serve your app/web content.
Regards
I have a droplet accepting traffic on port 443. Do you have a server on port 443?
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