# Remote access **URL:** \ **Category:** Remote Access\ **Created:** [June 15, 2019, 4:24am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-access/422985 "2019-06-15T04:24:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Busaman\_VA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/busaman_va/32/108534_2.png) [@Busaman\_VA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Busaman_VA)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2019, 6:02pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-access/422985/6 "2019-06-15T18:02:43Z")
I just came across the huge thread > [@Using Plex Server with a VPN](https://forums.plex.tv/t/using-plex-server-with-a-vpn/31548): > > I recently installed a VPN in my case CyberGhost VPN.  When it was activated I could no longer publish my server.  I searched far and wide for a solution, but could not find out how to exclude a port from a VPN.  It can be done with an IP address, but could not find instructions to exclude a port even with OpenVPN.  I was in Plex chat trying to help someone else with the same problem. He was using Private Internet Access and got a list of ports not forwarded by his VPN.  I remembered that my VPN… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-access/422985)._