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      Apaar @viragomann
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      @viragomann Yes, Sir I port forwarded correctly and I checked with a tool called simple port forwarding and it is working fine, there is no issue with the port forwarding its just the 80 port conflicting with the pfsense for some reason. I m also new to this so maybe I m making some mistake but as if now everything on my pfsense is on default.

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        Apaar @Derelict
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        @derelict Could it be because of Pfblocker ? I have pfblocker enabled on my router.

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          Gertjan @Apaar
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          @apaar said in Pfsense Occupying Port 80:

          but I m trying to access my website on port 80

          Where is this web server ?

          No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
          Edit : and where are the logs ??

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            Apaar @Gertjan
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            @gertjan The website is running on my local machine.

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              Gertjan @Apaar
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              So
              http://127.0.0.1:80 will do just fine - that is the address of your own pc/device.

              You might use the IPv4 or IPv6 of your pc/device, depending how you have set up your web server.

              If the hostname of your pc/device is known to the pfSense DNS ( and you did not change any default settings of the DNS !! )

              Example :
              My pfSense :

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              My Pc is called "pc"

              So I can :

              C:\Users\pc>nslookup pc
              Serveur :   pfsense.mylocal-lan.tld
              Address:  2001:470:1ddf:5c0:2::1
              
              Nom :    pc.mylocal-lan.tld
              Addresses:  2001:470:1ddf:5c0:2::c7
                        192.168.1.6
              

              Thus I can use "http://pc.mylocal-lan.tld" which points to 192.168.1.6 : that is my pc. Surely not pfSense, who lives at 192.168.1.1

              Btw : all this has little to with pfSense.

              No "help me" PM's please. Use the forum, the community will thank you.
              Edit : and where are the logs ??

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                Apaar @Gertjan
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                @gertjan okay! I got understood some of it so will try and see if I can fix it. Thank you for your help.

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                  Apaar @Gertjan
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                  @gertjan Can you help me ? A bit as well ? If possible ? on discord.... Maybe have a look at it.

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                    noisyjohn @Gertjan
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                    @gertjan said in Pfsense Occupying Port 80:

                    edit : a web server project that uses port 80 ?

                    yes, if you have local sites e.g. for development (domain name is not www), you cannot create certificate and you will not have https.

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                      noisyjohn @Apaar
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                      @apaar
                      How I get here? well, I have the same issue in Jan 2023 ...
                      One usual case is the pfsense behind another router - modem and you connect your pfsense using static IP or DCHP. Almost in the half of cases you get troubles with the firewall on router - modem (especialy if it is a cheep one). I knew that years ago and I always buy a modem that supports PPPoE passthrough I this case pfsense is using the PPPoE functionality, and there are no other firewalls...
                      But I do get troubles in the last two versions of pfsense (2.5 and 2.6) There are a lot of bugs... A couple of times I loose LAN connection with no reason and restarting webconfigurator from SSH console made the things worst. I added a new NIC, I make a LAN inteface assignment to the new NIC, I was able to login again ... just for making a user data backup.
                      So, 2 days ago I had another nice symptom: trying to login I got a wondefull page : "hello word!!" the default html after installing new web service.!!! It's seems that this is a related problem with this topic. I am trying 5 days to solve the port 80 problem and still get the same result: port is stealth for outside word. I have a couple of other ports in NAT and there is no problem, which means I do things correctly ... Today I tried something extreeme: allow all from all and all together .. Still the port is Stealth .. May it's better to spent my time setting a plain linux machine and play with NICs, routing tables and linux ip tables. It will be more interesting and educational ...

                      • good luck
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                        noisyjohn @noisyjohn
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                        @noisyjohn
                        *** I found a linux machine in the outer side of the word, and I did a port scan at my public IP (using linux nmap utility). the same problem with a bare, clean linux machine....
                        end of story

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