How to change Nginx firewall status to “active”

When I query the netfilter firewall status I get “inactive”:

$ sudo ufw status Status: inactive 

I want to change it so I can see this:

Output Status: active To Action From -- ------ ---- OpenSSH ALLOW Anywhere Nginx HTTP ALLOW Anywhere OpenSSH (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6) Nginx HTTP (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6) 

I have been looking but didn't find any info about how to set the status.

1 Answer

You need to run

sudo ufw enable 

to enable the firewall.

You can get further help on ufw on help.ubuntu.com and man ufw.

Example

$ sudo ufw enable Firewall is active and enabled on system startup $ sudo ufw status Status: active To Action From -- ------ ---- 22/tcp ALLOW Anywhere 22/tcp (v6) ALLOW Anywhere (v6) $ sudo ufw disable Firewall stopped and disabled on system startup $ sudo ufw status Status: inactive