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Installing CSF firewall on cPanel

Posted by admin under Tutorials, cPanel, cPanel VPS

First you would need to login as root via ssh, then as root issue the following commands;

wget http://www.configserver.com/free/csf.tgz

tar zxfv csf.tgz

cd csf

./install.cpanel.sh

At this point the CSF installation is complete and the configuration file should suit your needs, to edit the CSF configuration issue this command

nano /etc/csf/csf.conf

Set the TESTING variable to 1 instead of and make sure that the MONOLITHIC_KERNEL variable is set to 1 this is important for OpenVZ VPS servers

You may open/filter incoming and outgoing ports by editing the TCP_IN and TCP_OUT variables.

Save your configuration by pressing CTRL + x, when asked press “y” then press the enter key

Now start CSF by issuing;

/etc/init.d/csf start