Add WSL to Windows Firewall

Marius Niveri picture Marius Niveri · May 5, 2017 · Viewed 13.5k times · Source

After launching my Node.js App which also requires BrowserSync everything is working fine and I can access the App via localhost:3000 and the given IPv4 address on the same machine running the app. But I cannot access it from my mobile or any other device on the same network without turning off the Windows default Firewall. It works great with Ubuntu on VirtualBox and just plain Windows without any issues and with an active Firewall. So it would be really nice if you know how to add an exception for WSL to the Windows Firewall Config so I don't have to turn it off completely every time :)

And by the way, I'm using Windows build 15063

Answer

selbie picture selbie · May 5, 2017

Got firewall rule enabled correctly for Node?

http://imgur.com/a/Ln0N1