There are big chances that if you are using another firewall, that would be APF. Apart from CSF Firewall, the 2nd most popular firewall in the web hosting industry is APF Firewall.
Removing your current firewall is the first thing you must do to begin the step by step tutorial on how to install CSF Firewall on cPanel. This CSF installation tutorial is made for those who have a VPS, Cloud or Dedicated server with cPanel control panel. On this post, you will learn how to configure CSF and its security module LFD (Login Failure Daemon) in a basic way. If you follow our CSF installation guide, I can guarantee that even if you are a novice system administrator, you will be able to configure it properly without causing any issues to your websites. However, the fact that CSF is not only a firewall, but a security suite, doesn’t mean that it is hard to configure or to adapt to your needs. IntroductionĬSF is often seen as a very advanced firewall, for this lot of newbies find it hard to configure and often prefer other simple firewall solutions when they are choosing a Linux firewall for their cPanel servers. Today we will explore how to install CSF Firewall on cPanel. It was created by ConfigServer LTD and offers a complete security suite for cPanel servers.
CSF Firewall is one of the most complete and robust iptables based firewalls in the Linux industry.