download.configserver.com:443 is down?

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Dettol

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I got this error about a month, my cron job report
"Oops: Unable to download: Can't connect to download.configserver.com:443"

is that mean custombuild download server is down?

how to fix it ? thank you
 
Today I received below information.

Cron <root@xxxxxxx> /usr/sbin/csf -u
Oops: Unable to download: Can't connect to download.configserver.com:443 (Connection refused)

I have found information that ConfigServer closed project in 31 August 2025. More information on page https://configserver.com/announcement/

What plan do you have? Should still use CSF? or install another solution? Please write down your ideas.
 
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@rowebca this project is fresh. Are you using it? I don't know what should I do. Wait, when more administrators will have some experiences about this fork?
 
mikussikus said:
@rowebca this project is fresh. Are you using it?
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Yes I am as "waytotheweb" is the original company from CSF so the creators of csf/lfd. You can also read on their webpage that they stopped but also that they released CSF on their github, you can trust that one.

Nothing much will change though, but it will update your version to 15.0 and disable automatic updates so you won't have the error anymore.
 
mikussikus said:
So in future I have to manually update? GUI in DA will still work?
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I meant updates are just for "cosmetics" not the real use of firewall, so you disabled this. But anyway you can change the program how you want, because you have the source (it was release under GPL-3 license).

Regards,
GB
 
Currently in my production server I have csf v14.22 and I don't know what should to do. I like CSF because many configuration I can be able to set in DirectAdmin GUI dashboard.

So if I migrate to v15 I still can be able use CSF like before?
 
mikussikus said:
Currently in my production server I have csf v14.22 and I don't know what should to do. I like CSF because many configuration I can be able to set in DirectAdmin GUI dashboard.

So if I migrate to v15 I still can be able use CSF like before?
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Yes, but you have to install it manually, and from custombuild setup the version to 15.00 for CSF to disable updates from Directadmin.

Regards,
GB
 
So it seems the problem is that the CSF installer is hanging when trying to access files. plugins-da. net. If that server is down or blocked for you, your install will hang, which can wreak havoc.

Instead, you may want to try installing CSF directly from the official ConfigServer source — grab csf. tgz from download. configserver. com, unpack it and execute the installation script (install. sh or install_directadmin. sh). That's typically skips over the dead plugin URL and gets CSF running like a well oiled machine.

Anyway, let me know if that clears it and if anything else is doing the same thing!
 
saragih566 said:
Instead, you may want to try installing CSF directly from the official ConfigServer source — grab csf. tgz from download. configserver. com,
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No that is not possible anymore. Waytotheweb stopped per august 31th so download.configserver.com is down and won't be up again.
To install manually you have to grab it from their github as mentioned before.
 
mikussikus said:
So if I migrate to v15 I still can be able use CSF like before?
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Yes on your current server. Be aware it won't work on RHEL10 releases and also some new Debian or derative but not sure if it's 24.04 or a newer version where it will not work on anymore.

But currently you can keep using it. As I wrote before, version 15 only disables auto updating and remove update urls.
 
So I don't have to worry and If I have Directadmin legacy, Almalinux 9 and version and CSF v14.22 I can be able to update to v15 and everything will works like before?

It will change only one thing. If Github will apear new version I have to update manual, that right?
 
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mikussikus said:
and everything will works like before?
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Correct, either upgrade or just disable automatic update in csf.conf and restart csf and lfd and you can keep using it on Alma 9. CSF won't stop working.

There will not be a new version on Github, at least not on the github of waytotheweb because they will not develop it further. It's just there so people can still get it and maybe fork it and improve it themselves (if that is possible).
 
so if currently we don’t know what will happen with CSF in future what plan do you have? still use CSF or looking for another solution?
 
Directadmin might provide update directly same as other pacakge like apache, nginx, PHP.

So, let's wait next update in the next version.
 
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