23 Jun, 2023
Enable remote connections in Forticonverter
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The new FortiConverter is designed as a web application. The application (FortiConverter.py) should be run with Administrator privileges because it reads and writes data from/to high privilege directories. For security concerns, the default configuration only allows connections from users on the localhost.
 
To enable remote access to the web application
  1. Run notepad as an administrator and open the start.bat file located in the directory C:\Program Files\Fortinet\FortiConverter\.
  2. Append string 0.0.0.0:<port_num> after the keyword runserver. The port number used by default is 8000.
     
    For example:
     
    call “%install_dir%\Python36\python.exe” manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 –insecure
  3. Run notepad.exe as an administrator and open C:\Program Files\Fortinet\FortiConverter\converter\backend\mysite\mysite\settings.py
  4. Add the wildcard IP address ‘*’ (match ANY) into allowed ALLOWED_HOSTS.
     
    For example:
ALLOWED_HOSTS = [
'localhost',
'127.0.0.1',
'*',
]