ConfigServer Site Closed (CSF)

[Tango]

Way to the Web Ltd and Configserver.com has closed down permanently on 31 August 2025.


This announcement was first made on our blog and this website on 30 July 2025 to allow our customers time to update their software or otherwise prepare for our company’s closure.


This closure affects all of our commercial software including ConfigServer Exploit Scanner (cxs), MailScanner Front-End (MSFE), and Outgoing Spam Monitor (osm). It also affects our free software including ConfigServer Security and Firewall (csf), ConfigServer Mail Queues (cmq), ConfigServer Mail Manage (cmm), ConfigServer Modsecurity Control (cmc), and ConfigServer Explorer (cse).


As of 31st August 2025, there is no further support, downloads, or license IP changes available.


In order to continue using any of our commercial software after the 31st of August, you must have updated the software to the latest version. If you did not update the software, any of our commercial software products will cease to function and cannot be reactivated once the download and license servers are shut down.


We have released csf (ConfigServer Security & Firewall), cmc (Configserver Modsecurity Control, for cPanel), cmm (ConfigServer Mail Manage, for cPanel), cmq (ConfigServer Mail Queues, for cPanel and DirectAdmin), and cse (ConfigServer Explorer, for cPanel) under the GPLv3 license. These scripts are now available via our GitHub repository.

 

[Jesse]

This should be more popular of a thread!

How to update to the new GPL license:

Bookmark these:
https://github.com/centminmod/configserver-scripts/blob/main/README-gpl-csf.md (how to update)
https://github.com/waytotheweb/scripts (the actual new script)


Backup Current Configuration

cp -R /etc/csf /etc/csf.backup
cp /usr/local/csf/version.txt /usr/local/csf/version-backup.txt

Update CSF

# Use manual updates from GitHub
cd /usr/src
wget https://github.com/waytotheweb/scripts/raw/refs/heads/main/csf.tgz
# Extract and run install.sh
tar -xzf csf.tgz
cd csf
sh install.sh

Disable Auto Updates

In /etc/csf/csf.conf disable auto updates variable setting it to 0. CSF v15.00 disabled auto update and version check in code, but AUTO_UPDATES if enabled, will still try to auto update - leading to download error which is just cosmetic and won't impact CSF Firewall operations.

# Enabling auto updates creates a cron job called /etc/cron.d/csf_update which
# runs once per day to see if there is an update to csf+lfd and upgrades if
# available and restarts csf and lfd
AUTO_UPDATES = "0"

Verify Installation

csf -v # Should show v15.00
csf -r # Restart CSF

Post automatically merged: Sep 6, 2025

This should be more popular of a thread!

How to update to the new GPL license:

Bookmark these:
https://github.com/centminmod/configserver-scripts/blob/main/README-gpl-csf.md (how to update)
https://github.com/waytotheweb/scripts (the actual new script)


Backup Current Configuration

cp -R /etc/csf /etc/csf.backup
cp /usr/local/csf/version.txt /usr/local/csf/version-backup.txt

Update CSF

# Use manual updates from GitHub
cd /usr/src
wget https://github.com/waytotheweb/scripts/raw/refs/heads/main/csf.tgz
# Extract and run install.sh
tar -xzf csf.tgz
cd csf
sh install.sh

Disable Auto Updates

In /etc/csf/csf.conf disable auto updates variable setting it to 0. CSF v15.00 disabled auto update and version check in code, but AUTO_UPDATES if enabled, will still try to auto update - leading to download error which is just cosmetic and won't impact CSF Firewall operations.

# Enabling auto updates creates a cron job called /etc/cron.d/csf_update which
# runs once per day to see if there is an update to csf+lfd and upgrades if
# available and restarts csf and lfd
AUTO_UPDATES = "0"

Verify Installation

Edit - Tango - Added csftest

Test CSF will function.

perl csftest.pl

csf -v # Should show v15.00
csf -r # Restart CSF

I was already asked how to edit a file for auto updates so here's what I did below. You can also consult with https://duck.ai

That’s CSF’s main configuration file is at:

/etc/csf/csf.conf

Using nano

Type:
nano /etc/csf/csf.conf

Use arrow keys to scroll and find: AUTO_UPDATES

Change the line to:
AUTO_UPDATES = "0"

Save and exit:

Ctrl+O → press Enter to save.
Ctrl+X → to exit.