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I’m stuck setting up a firewall on my DigitalOcean droplet. I’ve followed all steps, but it’s not working. Can anyone help?

Posted on April 3, 2025

I’m stuck setting up a firewall on my DigitalOcean Droplet. I’ve followed all steps, but it’s not working. Can anyone help?



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Hey there 👋

Happy to help out! Could you share a bit more detail so we can better understand what’s going wrong?

For example:

  • Are you using UFW on the Droplet or the DigitalOcean Cloud Firewall from the dashboard?

  • What rules have you set so far?

  • What exactly “isn’t working”, are you locked out, or is some service like Apache not reachable?

Also, if you’re using both UFW and Cloud Firewall at the same time, it’s important to make sure they don’t conflict.

Feel free to paste any error messages or rule configs!

- Bobby

Heya, @699c9bc0a2c34f248e792cb8d2c6ab

Would you mind sharing what are the firewall rules and the configuration as general that you’re trying to set?

Regards

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