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Configuring Your Firewall

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Incoming Requests

Unless you have changed the default configuration, PhotoPrism is reachable via port 2342 on all network devices. If you are using a firewall, please ensure that this port can be accessed from other computers on your network, or that your instance can be accessed through a reverse proxy:

Outgoing Connections

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In order to successfully set up your installation and view location details in PhotoPrism, you must allow requests to the following hosts if you have a firewall installed, and make sure that your Internet connection is working:

In addition, the following API endpoints should be whitelisted so that public Docker images can be pulled from Docker Hub:

  • auth.docker.io
  • registry-1.docker.io
  • index.docker.io
  • dseasb33srnrn.cloudfront.net
  • production.cloudflare.docker.com

IPTables and Docker

On Linux, Docker manipulates the iptables rules to provide network isolation. This does have some implications for what you need to do if you want to have your own policies in addition to the rules Docker manages.

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