What is the procedure for opening a port on a server?

[Myles Ace]

Please walk me through the steps for opening a port number on a VPS or server.

[Blake Acy]

This is entirely dependent on whether or not you have a firewall installed.

[Elliott]

Follow the steps:
1. Sign in to your router's admin site.
2. Go to the Firewall page.
3. Locate the Port Forwarding section.
4. Enter or select the port.
5. Enter your computer's private IP address.
6. Click Save or Apply.
7. Restart the router.

[Ivy Afton]

How to see if a port is open?

[Blake Acy]

You can find out which ports on your VPS are open by doing the following:

1. Log in to your Windows Server 2008 using Remote Desktop.

2. Click the "START" button.

3. Click "run"

4. Type "cmd" (to run a command prompt)

5. In the command prompt, type: netstat -a.

[Ivy Afton]

What is the VPS port?

[Colton Abbe]

If you're intending to use a VPS as a mail server (SmarterMail), make sure your Windows Firewall exceptions list includes the Internet Mail Server (SMTP) port 25 and the Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3) port 110.

[Blake Acy]

We need to open a port on the windows VPS firewall to allow the app or process to work over it.

[Ivy Afton]

There are three ways to open a port on windows VPS:

1. Windows Firewall GUI

2. CMD (Command Line)

3. Windows PowerShell

[Myles Ace]

Ok. Thanks a lot