IIS hosted Web Application cannot accessible through Internet - windows

I have hosted Flask Web application on Windows Server on AWS, I have done followings
hosted it on IIS and add new bindings(port 8090) to web site
Created inbound rule for the port(8090) given in bindings
And it works fine on the server, but when i'm trying to access it on my PC's web browser says
it cannot reach took too long to respond
What else i need to do ?

In your vm, different provider has their security policy. For aws even you have set inbound port rule, it will not work. You also need to set inbound rules in their potal.
👉(1) Open Windows firewall, Create an Inbound Port Rule.
👉(2) Directly in Amazon Web Service console, exactly in security groups/inbound.

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Why IIS Express is ignoring network route in routing table?

We have a REST API which is working with Azure CosmosDB. This Azure CosmosDB account has enabled firewall, which allowing traffic from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address(which is our OpenVPN server).
On client/developer's side we have OpenVPN client which is pushing route to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx CosmosDB via VPN interface. When we build and run this REST API app in Visual Studio via IIS Express, the app is ignoring network route to CosmosDB and even ignoring changes in ..\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file(we have internal VNET ip conigured on that CosmosDB account).
Response status code does not indicate success: Forbidden (403); Substatus: 0; ActivityId: $someActivityId; Reason: (Message: {"Errors":["Request originated from IP yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy through public internet. This is blocked by your Cosmos DB account firewall settings. More info: https://aka.ms/cosmosdb-tsg-forbidden"]}
But if we run same app in IIS Server(in our case its a IIS 10) network route and hosts file change also working fine. Also network routing works when we using Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer or powershell az module. It's not working only when the app is hosted by IIS Express.
Its only working via VPN, if VPN is set as default gateway. In our case we don't want to use VPN as gateway for all traffic.
Does IIS Express has any restrictions which may cause this? Is there any workaround?

How to assign FTP URL

I got an AMI of Windows Server 2012 running on Amazon, and use it as website container for all my web sites. I recently created an app in WinForms, I need to publish it. In the moment that I use the publish option it asks for an FTP site. I already use FileZilla Server. I created an user and account. The matter here is that it asks for an FTP URL (ftp.example.com) and I only got (http://example.com). I try to do this with IIS but only can do it with HTTP. How can I create an FTP URL for the site that will contains my ClickOnce app ?.
Check Public DNS column on Instances page of Amazon EC2 console.
Note that the public DNS may change when the instance is restarted.
So your FTP URL would be like:
ftp://ec2-45-123-87-128.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com/
Though, you need to configure the instance firewall to allow the FTP traffic, what is not easy in general. But that's out of scope of your question.

Ban ip for deny access to an app

I have an application (.war) deployed in a Websphere Application Server v8. This app consists in a web application which is accessed by browser.
Now I have an IP Address that I want to ban but I don't find the option in the Administrative Console. Where I should ban this ip for to avoid the access this specifically application?
In WebSphere you have 2 options (depends if you directly access app server or through http server):
1 Directly via WebSphere admin console.
Go to:
Application servers > server1 > Web container transport chains > WCInboundDefault > TCP inbound channel (TCP_2)
In the Address exclude list enter client addresses you want to block
restart the server
2 Use IBM HTTP Server (based on Apache) and WebSphere Plugin, which is available with WebSphere and define Deny list using standard httpd.conf configuration.
Probably an IP filter isn't implemented by default in your application server, but it's easy enough to include an IP filter implemented in a servlet filter.
There's a nice intro to what filters can do on the Oracle site and plenty of readymade IP filters all over the web, like here or here. As you can see, the code needed is pretty simple, and as servlet filters are part of the EE spec, the result is portable between appservers as well.

Access to a self-hosted WCF service on azure virtual machine over the Internet

Actually the question is kind of duplication of the following one Unable to access a locally hosted wcf service over the internet but with only difference that the service is hosted by a windows service on Azure Virtual Machine.
I can access the service on the machine and I have added an endpoint to the service port at Azure Configuration console, but still cannot access the service over the Internet.
The error message that is not possible to set up connection.
Is my scenario technical possible on azure? if yes - what is done wrong?
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Mule on Amazon Cloud

I installed Mule Community Server on AWS cloud and it is functioning properly. When I use http end point and invoke Mule services from browser on my Amazon EC2 machine they work. When I access them from outside, the request timeout. The end points are not bound to local host but mapped to 0.0.0.0:8081. I have checked all firewall settings using amaozon security group and set permission for all. Yet it doesnt work. I am able to access the Windows IIS http server on the same machine but not mule on port 8081. Any clues would help.
Hope this doesn't sound rude, but did you disable the windows firewall, or allow 8081 through the windows firewall?

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