Ports and network

Find the Scops address, change its ports and open the firewall. Users need only the HTTPS port.

Find the address of a server

Users open https://<server>:5138 by default. To see the port on the Scops server, look at one of these:

• the Scops shortcut;
• the description of the ScopsWeb service in services.msc;
• "HttpsPort" in C:\Program Files\Scops\blazor\appsettings.json.

Change the ports

You need Manage Settings.

1. In Settings › Connection, find the Ports group.

2. Type the new ports: from 1024 to 65535, free, and different from each other.

   

3. Click Save.

4. Restart the ScopsWeb and ScopsApi services.

The saved ports have priority over the configuration files. A new port needs no new firewall rule. If a saved port is not free at start, see A port is taken.

Open the firewall

Setup adds the inbound rule Scops Web Interface, unless you clear its task. If you cleared it, add a rule for the HTTPS port as administrator. Use a different name, because an upgrade replaces Scops Web Interface.

netsh advfirewall firewall add rule name="Scops HTTPS 5138" ^
  dir=in action=allow protocol=TCP localport=5138

Use a reverse proxy

A proxy on the Scops server can forward to http://localhost:5137. It must pass WebSocket connections.

For a proxy on a different machine, open the HTTP port to the network:

1. Add "HttpBind": "Any" to the Server block of C:\Program Files\Scops\blazor\appsettings.json:

   "Server": {
     "HttpPort": 5137,
     "HttpsPort": 5138,
     "HttpBind": "Any"
   }

2. Restart the ScopsWeb service.

Find a host without a domain

A database can report a host name with no domain. The DNS search list of the Scops server finds it. If it does not:

1. Open api\appsettings.json. Under Server, add the domains to try, in order:

   "DnsSuffixes": "db.example.com;corp.example.com"

2. Restart the ScopsApi service.

Ports Scops listens on

Connections Scops makes

All these connections start on the Scops server:

Scops makes no other internet connection: no update check and no usage data.

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Updated October 31, 2026