- Updated April 23, 2022 CSF/LFD Firewall prevent blocking for your country If you have frequent problems with your users getting blocked by the firewall the safest way to prevent that would be by adding your country to the ignore list. In…
- Updated February 16, 2022 ClamAV Issues ERROR: Can’t download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED! WARNING: Local version: 0.101.2 Recommended version: 0.103.5 DON'T PANIC! Read https://www.clamav.net/documents/upgrading-clamav main.cld is up to date (version: 62,…
- Updated February 6, 2022 PHP Defender – Snuffleupagus PHP Defender – Snuffleupagus This is a PHP security module that has a custom configuration for each PHP version Supported PHP versions are PHP 7 and PHP 8. Configuration locations…
- Updated January 13, 2022 CWP Security Advisor Config You can managed CWP alerts and notification of security advisor in this file: /usr/local/cwp/.conf/.security_advisor.conf [alert]* Note it’s a very high risk for your websites, accounts, and server data if you…
- Updated October 20, 2020 Policyd – Limit emails per hour Policyd is used to limit incoming and outgoing emails per hour. Video instructions Installation instructions Install it from cwp.admin by rebuilding the mail server with option policyd Left Menu->Email->MailServer Manager…
- Updated August 5, 2020 How to install KernelCare on CWP servers KernelCare is a service that provides automated kernel security updates to your running kernel alleviating the need to reboot the server. It promptly delivers the latest security patches for different…
- Updated August 23, 2020 Cgroups – Limits per User This module in CWP allows you to Limit Server Resources per User using cgroups. Video instructions Example of cgroups in action on CWP servers Dedicated Servers Limits Available – CPU,…
- Updated May 6, 2020 How to disable dangerous php functions These functions can be potentially dangerous in some scenarios for the security of your scripts and server you can always disable them. Run the below command for the PHP versions…
- Updated April 21, 2020 suPHP Detailed info suPHP Detailed info Configuration files: /usr/local/etc/suphp.conf (Detailed suPHP configuration) /usr/local/apache/conf.d/suphp.conf (suPHP configuration for Apache) There is also suphp configuration in the vhost files for each vhost. /usr/local/apache/conf.d/vhosts/DOMAIN.COM.conf /usr/local/apache/conf.d/vhosts/DOMAIN.COM.ssl.conf If you…
- Updated November 21, 2020 PHP open_basedir How to enabled PHP open_basedir in CWP ** Note this is only for PHP-CGI We have two options – global config, one config file in the include folder /usr/local/php/php.d/ and…
- Updated September 1, 2017 How to get chain certificates When purchasing SSL from the SSL providers in many cases you will not get the chain certificates and you need to find them on they site, to make things easier…
- Updated June 26, 2017 How to change ssh port How to change ssh port for sshd and CSF Firewall Video instructions for CWP Edit /etc/ssh/sshd_config and uncomment line “# Port 22”, example for port 8123 nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config Port 8123…
- Updated April 13, 2022 CWP Secure CentOS Kernel [alert]CWPpro license without support doesn’t include CWPsecure Kernel.[/alert] CWP Secure Kernel checking each action and request: Video instructions CWPsecure kernel when in use provides the highest security possible on the…
- Updated June 21, 2017 CSF Firewall command line CSF/LFD Firewall is installed by default on all CWP servers. Here you can find useful commands you can use from your terminal. To get the list of all options please…
- Updated November 9, 2020 CWP Security Instructions Website Protection ======================== Please note that by allowing users to have week site security your server overall security can be compromised. Most of the hackers will be denied by ModSecurity…
- Updated October 30, 2016 Hide system processes from users How to hide all Linux processes not owned by the user in CWP In Security Center of the cwp.admin you have additional options to have your server even more secure.…
- Updated February 27, 2022 Service log paths Location of the logs on the CWP servers Apache logs are in folder /usr/local/apache/logs (main logs) /usr/local/apache/domlogs (per domain logs are in the same file for apache&nginx) Nginx logs are…
- Updated October 19, 2020 Hostname SSL with Letsencrypt Letsencrypt SSL Installation for Hostname – How to guide This is guide for cwp versions 0.9.8.2xx with autoSSL In cwp.admin left menu go to –> CWP Settings –> Change Hostname…
- Updated December 10, 2018 Letsencrypt Free SSL on CWP Let’s Encrypt is a certificate authority that launched on April 12, 2016 that provides free X.509 certificates for Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption via an automated process designed to eliminate…
- Updated June 22, 2016 CWP Auto Logout If you have an issue when you login into CWP and you are automatically logged-out, that issue is probably related with you IP change. In this case we are talking…