SSh remote tunnel, am I missing something?

Question

I want to make a local port that serve a python http.server accessible to the internet without messing around with port-forwarding on my home router, tunnelling it on a digital ocean vps. My local port is 8080, the port on the remote vps 4444, just for example

ssh -i .ssh/mykey -R 4444:localhost:8080 root@myvpsip

But still http://myvpsip:4444 is not accessible

ufw is disabled on the vps..What am I missing?

Answer 1

For the forwarded port to listen on any address (and not just localhost ) you need to prepend an additional : to the forward specification.

ssh -i .ssh/mykey -R :4444:localhost:8080 root@myvpsip

Additionally, you must have GatewayPorts yes or GatewayPorts clientspecified on the server-side sshd configuration.