Ports to open

What you open depends on what you need to be able to do.

Port 80 for the web server should be obvious.

Port 25 for outbound and inbound SMTP mail.

The rest would mostly be for what you might need for remote access.

110 for POP3

22 for SSH.

Any others you might need. Besides the Ray ports, 80 for web and 25 for smtp, dolphin does not need anything else. The rest is for what you need.

I've just loaded firewall again and site will not load at all this time!

The only other port i can think of is tcp port 443/TCP,UDP which i think is used by the paypal module for https connections.

Make sure port 80 is tcp and is allowed for both directions. Boonex news is a RSS feed. I am pretty sure its just standard http port 80, but it calls out. All of the standard ports should be allowed in both directions.

BTW: What are you using for a firewall?

Ubuntu Uncomplicated Firewall is just a front end to iptables. Anyhow, i am currently stumped as to why the rss feeds are not working with the firewall active. I will have to do some research. I still suspect outbound traffic.

If your server has X with gnome or kde and the firefox web browser installed, you may want to see if you can browse the internet from the server with the firewall on.

I am going to get a copy of Ubuntu to play with. See if i can figure it out. Normally i use Redhat Enterprise or CentOS for servers. So i have no experience with Ubuntu.

Thanks for you input sammie, but alas that didn't work also tried 22

My tests on a local test server with unbuntu's firewall active were ok. I had no problems.

Could you run sudo ufw status verbose

And post the results. Something is not right with your firewall.

Here is the result of sudo ufw status verbose:-

Firewall loaded

To            Action     From

-- ------ ----

1950:tcp ALLOW  Anywhere

1950:udp ALLOW  Anywhere

21:tcp  ALLOW   Anywhere

21:udp ALLOW Anywhere

25:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

25:udp ALLOW Anywhere

53:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

53:udp ALLOW Anywhere

80:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

80:udp ALLOW Anywhere

110:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

110:udp ALLOW Anywhere

115:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

115:udp ALLOW Anywhere

118:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

118:udp ALLOW Anywhere

143:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

143:udp ALLOW Anywhere

220:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

220:udp ALLOW Anywhere

443:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

443:udp ALLOW Anywhere

465:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

465:udp ALLOW Anywhere

587:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

587:udp ALLOW Anywhere

993:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

993:udp ALLOW Anywhere

995:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

995:udp ALLOW Anywhere

1935:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

1935:udp ALLOW Anywhere

1936:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

1936:udp ALLOW Anywhere

5080:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

5080:udp ALLOW Anywhere

20:tcp ALLOW Anywhere

20:udp ALLOW Anywhere

Thanks Deano

I don't see anything wrong. You don't need all those udp rules as most of those protocols are tcp only but it would appear you will need to seek help on a ubuntu forum somewhere.

Sorry i can't be of more help. If this was a redhat based system i would have you rip out all the iptables config data and start over again, but i don't even know where that stuff is in ubuntu.

The only rule i added to mine was to open port 80. And no problems with the RSS feeds or the admin panel. So i don't know whats up with yours.

Do the ports 1935  1936  5080   have to be inbound or outbound for the RMS?

Sorry to bring this post back from the dead, but after I installed my hardware firewall, I am having the same issue, my latest forum posts stopped working :(

Garol, have you resolved this?