Add custom rules to the Plesk firewall

Plesk has a (somewhat annoying) default firewall configuration that you can adjust from within the Plesk interface. However, if you want to add additional rules, you may find that you can’t add the rules you want from the interface. If you add them from the command line, Plesk will overwrite them when it feels the urge, even if you run service iptables save as you’re supposed to.

You can override this by making /etc/sysconfig/iptables immutable with chattr. Just run the following:

# chattr +i /etc/sysconfig/iptables

Now, Plesk can’t adjust your iptables rules without your intervention. Well, that is until SWSoft figures out how to run chattr when Plesk can’t edit certain configuration files. :-)