Reverse ssh tunnel connection refused

Question

Hi i'm trying to create a reverse ssh tunnel to access one of my local webservers through my Azure vm using the command

ssh -N -R localhost:5555:127.0.0.1:80 user@172.x.x.x

but when i type the vm's ip on another pc followed with port 5555 it refuses the connection i did a nmap scan and following is the result

port 5555 is marked as closed. I already added firewall rules to open any in bound or out bound connection to be allowed on port 5555

what could be the issue?

Answer 1

Would you please check the SSH server configuration file and make sure GatewayPorts is set to yes.

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