Opening Ports for External Connection for Web Control Center on Linux
It is necessary to open a port in your firewall to allow other computers to access your HarmonyWeb Control Center server. HarmonyWeb Control Center is using port 8080 by default.
How to open a port for Red Hat, Fedora or CentOS
- Edit the following file:
/etc/sysconfig/iptables
- Append the following rule to the file to open port 8080:
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT –m state –state NEW –m tcp –p tcp –dport 8080 –j ACCEPT
- Save and close the file.
- Restart the
iptables
service:
service iptables restart