ventura firewall broken

gulysses3 wrote:

I am using Ventura 13.0.1 on an M1 Mac Mini. I run an apache server on my machine and discovered I can no longer connect to my server. I opened the firewall settings and changed them to allow httpd. Connections remain blocked. If I restart the machine, the httpd setting is set back to block connections. The only way I can access my web server is to turn off the firewall completely AND restart the machine. Seems ridiculous to have an option to turn off a firewall and then have to reboot the machine for the setting to take effect. Not sure what is going on here, but it is annoying to say the least and I am running without a firewall jut to enable access via http. On top of that, I would prefer opening specific ports, the httpd switch in the firewall interface opens both 443 and 80. A solution would be great. Thanks.

The current stable release of Ventura including bug fixes, security updates is macOS Ventura 13.1

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Kept delving myself and found the Solution for me.

Culprit is the com.apple.alf.plist File you find in /Library/Preferences.

Edit the File (don't forget to make a Backup of this File first,jic).

Search for

<dict>

<key>alias</key>

<data>

[snip...]

</data>

<key>reqdata</key>

<data>

[snip...]

</data>

<key>state</key>

<integer>2</integer>

</dict>

(This should be above

<key>exceptions</key>

<array>

etc.etc.)

All <integer>2</integer> are the red flagged ones.

Set to zero(0) and the flag will be green.

Save your edit.