Sunday, May 9, 2021

Access Fortinet Firewall Management Interface Over WAN

 

Its very easy to access the FortiGate  from the wan address,

First login FortiGate from the intranet (local IP) then follow these steps:


Step 1: Allow HTTPS on Management Interface

GoTo Network > Interfaces, on Administrative Access section, allow HTTPS

 

Step 2: Permit Public IP Addresses

GoTo System > Administrators, enable Restrict login to trusted hosts and specify your Public IP addresses from where you will access. Do not forget to add your Internal hosts, otherwise you lose connectivity to firewall from Internal hosts.

 

Step 3: Change default https port to 444

On GUI, System > Settings > FortiCloud and change the default https port from 443 to 444.

 

You should now be able to access your Fortigate Firewall https://x.x.x.x:444 over WAN.

to help fortigate port forwarding, see this

That's it.

Enjoy!...

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