firewalld is the firewall manager that comes pre-installed on AlmaLinux, whether you’ve freshly installed AlmaLinux or migrated from CentOS to AlmaLinux. By default, the firewall is turned on, meaning that a very limited number of services are able to receive incoming traffic.
This is a nice security feature, but it means that the user must be knowledgeable enough to configure the firewall whenever they install a new service on the system, like HTTPD or SSH for example. Otherwise, connections from the internet can’t reach these services.
In this guide, we’ll see how to disable or enable the firewall in AlmaLinux, along with checking the status of the firewall. These are good troubleshooting options when trying to determine if a firewall rule is blocking traffic to or from a particular service.
DID YOU KNOW?
firewalld is simply a front end for the system’s nftables (formerly iptables) firewall. This makes the firewall easier to interact with, but essentially firewalld just translates all our commands into corresponding nft
commands.
In this tutorial you will learn:
- How to check the firewall status on AlmaLinux
- How to stop firewall on AlmaLinux
- How to start firewall on AlmaLinux
- How to permanently disable firewall on AlmaLinux
- How to enable firewall to start after reboot
How to disable or enable the firewall on AlmaLinux
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