Allow HTTPS Through Your UFW Firewall

UFW -- Uncomplicated Firewall -- is just what is sounds like. I have it running on a DigitalOcean box and it is only letting through traffic on ports 80 (HTTP) and 22 (SSH). I am setting up SSL for a domain hosted on this box which means I need to also let through traffic on 443 (HTTPS).

The allowed ports can be checked with the status command:

$ sudo ufw status

Status: active

To                         Action      From
--                         ------      ----
OpenSSH                    ALLOW       Anywhere
Nginx HTTP                 ALLOW       Anywhere
OpenSSH (v6)               ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)
Nginx HTTP (v6)            ALLOW       Anywhere (v6)

As we can see, HTTPS has not yet been allowed by ufw. We can allow HTTPS traffic with the allow command.

$ sudo ufw allow https

Check the status again and see that HTTPS is now included in the list.

source

h/t Dillon Hafer

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