ConfigServer shutting down as of 31st of August 2025

Not yet. I think they are also (just like the competition) looking as to what is going to happen, if indeed it will be given free via GPL3 and Github and probably decide then how to go on further.
 
Please carefully, CSF enable automatics update by default, I'm just found out recently on new box installed.


Maybe someone on the vacation trip don't know this yet 😵‍💫.
 
ccto said:
Does DirectAdmin have any (tentative) planning for CSF?
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On its side, cPanel just sent a newsletter announcing that they would like, if possible, to ensure a smooth transition (see attachment).
As CSF is a "must" for DirectAdmin, I am confident DA will take a similar approach.

In addition, I think CloudLinux could be a good provider to keep CSF & LFD updated (maybe for free, like AlmaLinux), but I haven’t seen any communication from them about it so far.

By the way, I’m not personally too worried if ConfigServer shares its product with an open source license (or not), someone will surely do something about it. The cake is too big, and users like us are too attached to CSF.

Did you hear that pretty recently (March 2024), "Redis" was not distributed as open source anymore… still no trouble about this.
 

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I emailed waytotheweb a few weeks ago, and totally forgot about their reply. I was asking what they were doing with the domain, as CSF "phones home" to get updates. (as @zEitEr mentioned as a potential security risk very early on in this thread). Mentioned I am part of the DA community here (not cPanel as in the email reply). They are holding on to that for time being which is a little peace of mind. I also asked if they were releasing their other software under the GPLv3 as well, as that would help loads of users.

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Not to bring up a sort of offtopic but related thing on this thread, but throwing this out there, our team just released a plugin for directadmin to control firewalld, along with a bash wrapper that manages various aspects of firewalld, fwctl.sh.

The code can be found on our public github for review by anyone interested: https://github.com/vertahost/directadmin-firewalld-plugin

Now its not super feature-filled, like CSF/LFD but its a firewall manager, and it manages a basic firewall setup. The instructions im sure can be better, but if you are technically minded, should be somewhat easy to get setup. Ide recommend a fresh install of DA for testing before making things live.

We would also love to know what people think of it, or if any issues are found.
 
Hi,

I did uninstall CSF on a new server and activated Imunify360 firewall functionality. I have documented some findings here
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directadmin-csf-uninstall.md

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Imunify360 Firewall "Default Blocking Mode" is "All open, except specified". This makes the server vulnerable to attacks, so I had to also activate the VPS provider firewall with all DirectAdmin related ports listed as open (see: https://docs.directadmin.com/operation-system-level/securing/firewall.html)

I have added Imunify360 Firewall port TCP 22 to manage whitelisted SSH IP's from DirectAdmin. Not sure why Imunify360 blocking mode "All close, except specified" is still experimental, would be better for security, also more tricky when SSH/DA is not properly whitelisted.

Kind regards,

Mike
 
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