Hello, @comis

From what I can see the port is closed. What you can do is to make sure it’s open using the following commands:

Check if UFW is enabled:

sudo ufw status

If UFW is disabled, which it is by default, you’ll see something like this:

Status: inactive

To enable UFW, use this command:

sudo ufw enable

Open the port with this command:

sudo ufw allow https

or

sudo ufw allow 443

Check the status again:

sudo ufw status

You should see that the port is open and this should solve the issue for you. Hope it helps.

You can check this tutorial as well:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-a-firewall-with-ufw-on-ubuntu-18-04

Let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Alex

UFW is “inactive”. I copied the iptables rules from an old droplet where 443 is open and works. If I compare both tables side by side from the output of “iptables -L -v” both droplets show the same rules and https is ACCEPTED.

The reason Im asking if something is blocking in front of the droplet is that I have the same problem with port 25 but when i open port 26 and config the a mail client to use 26 instead it works - so it seems there is something in front of the droplet thats not completely open?