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Set Up Windows Firewall

Category: VPS Setup

Configure Windows Firewall—packet filtering tool—on a Windows VPS—open

wf.msc

in Run create an inbound rule for HTTP: New Rule > Port > TCP > 80 > Allow Add RDP (3389) and FTP (21) similarly—apply with

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name=\"HTTP\" dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=80

Test with

telnet ip 80

from another machine—expect connection On AWS Lightsail this secures IIS and phpMyAdmin—no Bash or UFW use PowerShell for

Get-NetFirewallRule

to list rules Ensures uptime—block unused ports (e g netsh advfirewall set allprofiles state on) for MySQL safety