Level 4
Bump.
Has anyone achieved this, ensuring Forge can still connect?
Nov 26, 2015
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Level 4
Change default SSH port to 1222
Hi!
I have successfully installed laravel forge onto a custom VPS, and Forge can connect to it.
I would like to restrict SSH to port 1222. Of course when ssh'ing in myself I can specify the port... But is there a way to tell Forge to connect via a different port?
Thanks in advance guys.
Level 20
I tried this, but I couldn't specify a port anywhere on Forge. You can't enter something like ip:port either in the server IP setting.
Would be nice tho, maybe I could get rid of some of those bots trying to SSH in all the time then :)
Level 41
You can always setup a firewall rule to forward traffic on the default port to 1222 for traffic coming only from Forge servers, and block everything else on 22.
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Level 20
Got any good references/tutorials on how to achieve this?
Level 65
Changing the port to something else won't help much. Just install fail2ban and it will ban them (and anyone else doing login fails).
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Level 4
Thanks @bashy
Level 5
I found an old article where Taylor tells how to configure a different SSH port. But this feature seems to be removed again.
https://medium.com/@taylorotwell/custom-ssh-ports-on-forge-f435ab3431bf
Now I've created a whitelist for the IP's that Forge uses. And afterward removed the allow rule.
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