Iptables Allow Apache Access

Last modified: 
Sunday, March 29th, 2015

Overview

How to enable access to Apache's standard ports 80 and 443 in iptables.

Edit sysconfig

vim /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Add or update the following lines.

-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT
-A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -m state --state NEW -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT

Restart iptables

service iptables restart


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