How to Install CSF on a VPS Server
CSF is the perfect alternative to APF because CSF has many of the most powerful and powerful features of APF. By following this article, you can learn how to remove APF and use CSF using VPS via the command line interface.
Remove APF from your server:
As mentioned earlier, we need to uninstall APF before installing CSF. Here are the steps to remove APF from your server ،
Red commands are run
Step 1: Log on to your server via SSH as a primary user.
Step 2: Run the following command within the shell access to disable the APF service, which is root @ vps999 [~] # service apf stop
Step 3: Then run that command root @ vps999 [~] # chkconfig -del apf
Step 4: root @ vps999 [~] # rm -fr /etc/init.d/apf / usr / local / sbin / apf / etc / apf /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/cgi/{apfadd,addon_add2apf.cgi }
Add WHM IP to the firewall:
To be able to add your IP WHM to the firewall, you will need to connect to SSH only. Follow these steps and run the highlighted commands in red.
Step 1: Connect to the SSH web server and run the following commands.
Step 2: Run the following command root @ vps999 [~] # yum -y remove apf-ded whm-addip
Step 3: Then run that command root @ vps999 [~] # rm -rf / usr / local / cpanel / whostmgr / cgi / apfadd
Step 4: Run that command root @ vps999 [~] # rm -f /usr/local/cpanel/whostmgr/cgi/addon_add2apf.cgi
Step 5: Open the pluginscache.yaml file by running the following command
root @ vps999 [~] # nano /var/cpanel/pluginscache.yaml
Step 6: You will see a set of lines to remove except for the unique key line
Step 7: Save changes
Steps to Install CSF
Step 1: Go to your VPS server via SSH
Step 2: Run that command in your shell instance (shaded in red)
root @ vps999 [~] # yum install -y csf-ded
Step 3: Make sure CSF is running through the following command.
root @ vps999 [~] # service csf start
