By evlrenne
Hello! Recently I removed IPTables on my Centos 7 Droplet and since then I cannot access my server via SFTP only via the Droplet console… I understand that It has to be some sort of Centos 7 specific Firewall problem? Any suggestions to fix this problem Is much Appreciated… Thanks!
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CentOS 7 uses firewalld to implement firewalling. To check if it is enabled, run:
sudo systemctl status firewalld
If you use the default port 22 for SSH connections, you can open that port by running:
sudo firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=ssh
sudo firewall-cmd --reload
For more info, check out the “Configuring a Basic Firewall” section of our Additional Recommended Steps for New CentOS 7 Servers tutorial.
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