UFW application profiles in 5 minutes

lovelinux
2 min readJul 13, 2021

Difficulty: easy, Topic: firewall configuration on ubuntu/debian

Uncomplicated FireWall (ufw) allows you to block/unblock specific ports. If your application uses more than one port it would be easier for you to define application profile that contains several ports and enable/disable them using single rule.

In this example I use app profile called “my_app” that uses 3 ports: 15000 tcp, 8080 tcp and 9090 udp

You need:

  • ubuntu/debian
  • installed ufw (apt install…

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