Trying to set up Nginx in Ubuntu 16.04 following the tutorial given in https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-linux-nginx-mysql-php-lemp-stack-in-ubuntu-16-04 everyhting is fine but running the command
sudo ufw status
gives inactive.
What is wrong?
Thank you
sudo ufw enable
sudo ufw default deny
And I then do:
sudo iptables -L
Not Sure...
Source:
[https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1514714](http://)
All I needed was:
$ sudo ufw enable
I then got the following prompt:
Command may disrupt existing ssh connections. Proceed with operation (y|n)?
After hitting "y" I saw:
Firewall is active and enabled on system startup
And sudo ufw status gave me the expected output.
Alternatively instead set up everything you can just use Ubuntu image with LEMP: droplets> destroy> rebuild> choose Ubuntu LEMP > REBUILD
However I face problem that UFW firewall NOT WORKING AT ALL for ubuntu images 16 (with docker) and 17 :
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/ubuntu-ufw-firewall-not-working-at-all-2
If you found some solution can you test that UFW really works in your case and give me some info?
Alternative2> Instead of UFW you can use Network Firewall accesed by diitalocean web panel
After "sudo ufw default deny", I could no longer ssh into my droplet. I went to the Digitalocean console, logged in, and entered "sudo ufw default allow". Now I can ssh into my droplet again.
Now "ufw status" returns "Status: active" along with some other information. Go figure.
Thanks BuyDeal. You had me worried, but all's well that ends well.