VPS Guide: Your Go-To for VPS, Ubuntu & Command Line Success

Install UFW with Reload on Ubuntu

Category: VPS Setup

Reload UFW rules on Ubuntu without downtime—install with

apt install ufw

add rules like

ufw allow 22

and

ufw allow 80

then enable with

ufw enable

Update rules (e g

ufw allow 443

) and reload with

ufw reload

—this applies changes without dropping connections Verify with

ufw status

—expect \"443/tcp ALLOW Anywhere\" Test SSH (

ssh user@ip

) and HTTP (

curl http://ip

)—expect no interruption On DigitalOcean this maintains MySQL and phpMyAdmin uptime—check logs with

tail /var/log/ufw.log

to confirm reloads ensuring seamless firewall updates