How to Install and Uninstall CSF

CSF Firewall is a free Firewall plugin installed on cPanel servers. This plugin works on physical servers and Hypervisor-based VDS virtual servers. VPS does not work properly on virtual servers. To install this Iptables-based software on your server, you can install it by typing the commands below one by one after connecting to your server via SSH.

cd /usr/src

rm -fv csf.tgz

wget https://download.configserver.com/csf.tgz

tar -xzf csf.tgz

cd csf

sh install.sh

If you are not satisfied with CSF, you can simply remove it via SSH with the following 2 codes.

cd /etc/csf

sh uninstall.sh