No remote access on port 7396

[TomS]

Hi there,

I am using the FAH client version 7.5.1 on my windows pc (Windows 10, latest release).
Folding is working pretty fine with both GPU and CPU and also accessing the status page via web browser is working fine.
It also works if connecting using localhost (i.e.

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http://localhost:7396/

).

But when trying to connect from a remote system, I keep getting a HTTP server response (401 UNAUTHENTICATED).
When connecting to my FAH client via telnet using port 36330, the connection is working pretty fine.
I correctly set the values for "IP Address Restriction" and "Passwordless IP Address Restriction" correctly to allow my whole local network segment access to the server.
But still, the HTTP access does not work.

In some posts here, I saw that there's another option in server.xml available called "web-allow". This option is also mentioned in the sample-config.xml file located in the FAH client user directory.
I saw that such a line was not present in the server.xml file and I added it.
After adding, access to the web page on port 7396 was working fine from other hosts in my LAN. But after some time (maybe I've re-opened the advanced config app of the FAH client for windows...) this setting had been removed again and accessing the web page was not possible anymore.

Now my questions:
- Is this beaviour by design?
- how can I permanently add such a "web-allow" config file directive on a Windows client?
- how to configure that in Windows using the advanced config gui app?

Thanks for that great software and for your help!

Best regards,
Tom

[Joe_H]

I would ask the people who came up with this hack, it has been posted here a few times, as well as on other sites. Quite frankly it is an unsupported use of Web Control. What I do know, if an entry for the config.xml file through FAHControl is not properly formatted and set for valid settings, on saving it will be removed to keep from borking the client.