Installation of ConfigServer Security (csf) - cPanel

Installation and configuration of ConfigServer Security(csf & lfd) - for cPanel

csf installation:

1) Login to WHM and navigate to EasyApache.

2) For perfect installation and working of CSF and your websites, you will need to enable next modules and extensions before starting install it.

Must be enabled:

Ident

Imagemap

Mime Magic

Bz2

Curl

Curlwrappers

Exif

GD

Magic Quotes

Mbregex

Mbstring

Mcrypt

Mysql

PDO

TTF

Tidy

XSL

Zip

For finish installation choose "Save and build" and wait few minutes until you get complete message.

Next steps:

Connect to your server via ssh and run next commands to install csf:

cd ~

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

tar -xzf csf.tgz

cd csf

sh install.sh

That's all, csf is installed successfully . To configure csf and lfd go to /etc/csf/ directory and open with your favorite editor next files:

cd /etc/csf

vi csf.conf

White list: csf.allow

Black list:  csf.deny

To add a specific IP to black list edit csf.deny and add IP Address.

For example:

vi csf.deny

167.XXX.XX.XXX # (too many wrong authentication)

All logs of csf located in /var/logs/lfd.log

To start/stop/restart csf, run from command line /etc/init.d/csf start

Also you can configure it through WHM -> Plugins -> ConfigServer Security & Firewall.

eNj0y!