Port forward a device, which is exclude from a whole network VPN setup through selective routing

I followed Setting up PIA VPN on pfSense for your whole network and Configuring Selective Routing by Lawrence System on YouTube. Almost everything worked as excepted. The only problem was that I could not get port forwarding to work, it worked perfectly fine before I dabbled with the “VPN stuff”. I.e., I want to have a server outside of the VPN part of the network, which I can access remotely. How would I go about accomplishing this?

My current firewall rules for WAN, which is working when VPN-client is not enabled.

Outbound NAT setup from the video, my setup looked the same before I reverted my pfSense config to one without a VPN-client enabled.

Thanks, in advance!
Best regards, Elias, a pfSense beginner.

Solved by “If you have added policy routing rules as shown in the video, simply go into the OpenVPN client settings and check “Don’t pull routes”.”!

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