# Opening a new port?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/opening-a-new-port/263408>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [June 15, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/opening-a-new-port/263408 "2008-06-15T19:43:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![tauguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58f4c7/32.png) [@tauguy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tauguy)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/opening-a-new-port/263408/1 "2008-06-15T19:43:01Z")

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How can I open a new port for a server?

Cheers

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**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 12:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/opening-a-new-port/263408/2 "2008-06-16T00:31:28Z")

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Opening a closed port on a \*nix server can be done with

iptables -A INPUT -p tcp –dport 138 -j ACCEPT

(opens port 138 for tcp. Change to udp if you need).

after that you can save and flush your ip tables.

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**Author:** ![tauguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58f4c7/32.png) [@tauguy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tauguy)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/opening-a-new-port/263408/3 "2008-06-16T19:18:26Z")

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I guess my first post was very vague. I want to open a new port for apache 2.2 so that a socket chat client made in flash will work?

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**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/opening-a-new-port/263408/4 "2008-06-16T22:52:52Z")

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then choose a port and assign it to iptables like I posted up there 😉

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**Author:** ![tauguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58f4c7/32.png) [@tauguy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tauguy)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/opening-a-new-port/263408/5 "2008-06-17T15:36:53Z")

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What should I run that code through?

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**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/opening-a-new-port/263408/6 "2008-06-17T15:38:18Z")

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ssh.

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**Author:** ![tauguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/58f4c7/32.png) [@tauguy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tauguy)\
**Post date:** [June 17, 2008, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/opening-a-new-port/263408/7 "2008-06-17T16:18:11Z")

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lol, um, I have no idea what that means (n00b lol i know!!)

Edit: Ah lol! Are we talking about Unix here? Because I got Windows.