How to Start and Enable Firewalld on Fedora 22

Posted on June 22, 2015 by J. Mays | Updated: April 27, 2023

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Fedora, Fedora 22, Firewall, Firewalld, Security, Systemctl, Systemd

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It is highly recommended that you have a firewall protecting your server.

Pre-Flight Check

These instructions are intended specifically for enabling and starting firewalld on Fedora 22.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 22 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

Enable Firewalld

To enable firewalld, which means firewalld will start at boot, run the following command as root:

systemctl enable firewalld

Start Firewalld

To start firewalld, run the following command as root:

systemctl start firewalld

Check the Status of Firewalld

To check the status of firewalld, run the following command as root:

systemctl status firewalld

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