How to set up direct connection to Zope instance protected by firewall via SSH Tunnel in Windows

This Plone tutorial teaches you how to connect to firewall-protected Zope instance localhost:8080 by building SSH tunnel in Windows.

If you want to connect to remote Zope instance protected by firewall - you should build SSH tunnel to connect.

Open PuTTY, specify Host Name, which is a server name that can be found at your Quintagroup account (https://my.quintagroup.com/username). This is something like login.quintagroup.com. Then press Open.

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You might get PuTTY Security Alert, like the one below. Press Yes and continue your work.

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Now type your SSH login and password and you will be in.
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Now it's time to build SSH tunnel. Right click of the mouse and select Change Settings...
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Open Tunnels tab in the SSH section.
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In the Source port box enter 8080. This is the port PuTTY will listen on your local machine. In the Destination field enter 127.0.0.1:8080. This means, from the server, forward the connection to IP 127.0.0.1 port 8080.

Click the Add button.
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The screen should look like this, then press Apply.

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The SSH tunnel is created. Now you can open http://localhost:8080 in your browser using login name and password from user details at https://my.quintagroup.com/username.

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