How to Start and Enable Firewalld on Fedora 21

Posted on December 11, 2014 by J. Mays

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Command-line, Fedora, Fedora 21, 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 21.
I’ll be working from a Liquid Web Self Managed Fedora 21 server, and I’ll be logged in as root.

Enable Firewalld

To enable firewalld, 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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