03 Create New Firewalld Zone and Add Service | How to Add Service in Zone ?

Allow apache service in firewalld, how to  allowed service permanent in firewall

Question : How to create a new zone in firewalld, running on CentOS 7 or RHEL 7 Or higher version of  Operating System

To Create New zone in Firewall

firewall-cmd --new-zone=linuxtopic --permanent

Here my zone name is linuxtopic, you can use any name of zone according to you.

After creating a zone it require a reload firewall to reflect zone. So we will reload firewalld

firewall-cmd --reload

We successfully created a  linuxtopic zone now  we will set this zone as default zone

To set default in firewall

firewall-cmd --set-default-zone=linuxtopic

Question : How to add Apache service in zone ?

Now we will allow Apache service in our active zone, before we do first we know about which service / port used by Apache

To Print information about a service

firewall-cmd --info-service=http

firewall-cmd --info-service=https

To Add or Allow http and https service in firewall zone

firewall-cmd --zone=linuxtopic --add-service=http
firewall-cmd --zone=linuxtopic --add-service=https

To Add or Allow http and https service in firewall zone

We can use   --permanent parameter for permanently with any each command,  this will update xml. locate in firewall directory

firewall-cmd --zone=linuxtopic --add-service=http --permanent
firewall-cmd --zone=linuxtopic --add-service=https --permanent

Note : it's required to reload the firewall

To verify added http and https service in firewall

firewall-cmd --list-all

To know about more :

1 -  Basic of Firewalld Service, Installation and manual

2 -  Working With Firewall Zone

3 -  Create New Zone in Firewall and Allow Apache Service

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