# open firewall for http traffic SLES 15

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-firewall-for-http-traffic-sles-15/31193>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ansible-project\
**Created:** [September 3, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-firewall-for-http-traffic-sles-15/31193 "2019-09-03T19:06:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-firewall-for-http-traffic-sles-15/31193/1 "2019-09-03T19:06:44Z")

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sudo pip install firewall

then run the playbook again

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-firewall-for-http-traffic-sles-15/31193/2 "2019-09-03T19:36:24Z")

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OK something else is off then.  
I've just tried the same playbook on a vanilla SLES15 and after  
enabling and starting firewalld it works straight away without errors.  
Can you check if you have the correct package installed. It should  
look like this:

sles15:/etc/zypp/repos.d # zypper info python3-firewall  
Loading repository data...  
Reading installed packages...

Information for package python3-firewall:

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/open-firewall-for-http-traffic-sles-15/31193/3 "2019-09-04T08:28:26Z")

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That's a local system problem for you to solve.  
On the plus side, whatever is causing this might also be causing your  
ansible playbook failure.

Dick