Port forwarding doesn't work on home router

I have a tplink archer ax50, no modems no nothing, just the router, and i want set up port forwarding. I create the virtual private server as it's called here, I run nmap on the local ip of the host and the port is opened but when i try to access the port on the public ip it doesn't work. I have windows 11 on my host machine I made sure that the local ip address of the host is static, made sure that the wan ip address of the router is public not private, set up firewall rules and even disabled firewall on the host to test and i still can't get it to work. I also ran wireshark on the host to lo

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