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Other / Re: Goodbye CWP — I’m done for good

« on: March 20, 2026, 09:10:42 AM »

There is no DDoS attack agains the forum. There is a CWP team that have no interest in fix the server where the forum is. That is a FACT.

The DDoS is a excuse. There is no record of a ddos attack anywhere. More, there is no record in HISTORY of a DDoS attack that goes by months... or now CWP is so special that even get to beat history of the internet? 

The server where the forum is hosted is outdated, with security issues and with misconfigurations. CWP team doesn't fix the issues because they have no interest in doing so. as with the CWP itself... and we can continue to discuss this, but there is no point.

CWP envangelist will ignore ALL the points made, and and continue to say that everything is fine even if CWP Team itself confirm that the panel is dead.

@Starburst will continue to provide guides in how to "fix this and that", in hope to get some attention - just look how this guy now have a forum dedicated to "help" cwp users. is trying to became somehow of a "god" to save CWP, but failing in that.

Many more continue to be here, where not even the CWP team is online, just in hope that something change, because they have all they business around CWP, and they cannot change that fact. So CWP must survive... must continue, or all they work will go by the drain. And they don't know more in how to fix that... When the time arrives, will be too late...

Many more continue to flock from CWP. There are MANY cwp alternatives, better, updated and strong. Free or paid.
CWP was unique, was great. Was. That is the word, is not anymore.

What service have you found to better?

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Other / Re: Goodbye CWP — I’m done for good

« on: February 24, 2026, 10:12:13 AM »

I think they could at least put the forum behind some kind of DDOS protection like CloudFlare or whatever as a start. We can build form there 

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CSF Firewall / Re: Continued CWP support with new CSF fork

« on: January 08, 2026, 09:50:30 AM »

Yes, you should be able to go from the closed source (14.24) to the open source version (15+).

Starburst, have you at all dabbled with the other major CSF fork, Sentinel Firewall?
https://github.com/sentinelfirewall/sentinel

1. Yes, you can follow the upgrade guide on the KB to go from 14.24 to 15.08

2. Yea, Sentinel is being maintained by some cPanel admins, and is their primary focus.
As such, they aren't too worried about other panels or OS'es.
Where I asked Aetherinox to support AL10.
Also gave him a CWPpro license for testing.

Thanks that worked! Is there any thing we need to do to enable auto updating from the new source or just keep it manual?

Thanks

The new update re-enables auto update checks, as long as those config files where unlocked when CSF was updated.

Brilliant!

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CSF Firewall / Re: Continued CWP support with new CSF fork

« on: January 07, 2026, 12:21:40 PM »

Yes, you should be able to go from the closed source (14.24) to the open source version (15+).

Starburst, have you at all dabbled with the other major CSF fork, Sentinel Firewall?
https://github.com/sentinelfirewall/sentinel

1. Yes, you can follow the upgrade guide on the KB to go from 14.24 to 15.08

2. Yea, Sentinel is being maintained by some cPanel admins, and is their primary focus.
As such, they aren't too worried about other panels or OS'es.
Where I asked Aetherinox to support AL10.
Also gave him a CWPpro license for testing.

Thanks that worked! Is there any thing we need to do to enable auto updating from the new source or just keep it manual?

Thanks

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CSF Firewall / Re: Continued CWP support with new CSF fork

« on: January 06, 2026, 10:57:58 AM »

A developer named Aetherinox has forked CSF, and is actively supporting it, along with updates for CWP.

Please see the following KB, if you would like to update to this new fork and version:

https://starburst.help/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/aetherinox-csf-firewall-update-to-v15-09/

If you can, please support him also.

I am currently running v14.24 - can i go straight to this?

Thanks

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CentOS-WebPanel Bugs / Re: [CRITICAL] Multiple CWP Servers Infected – Arbitrary PHP Code Execution via Publ

« on: November 27, 2025, 05:12:04 PM »

Just read that eval cant actually be blocked? I have added assert. I cant see any issues website wise yet.

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CentOS-WebPanel Bugs / Re: [CRITICAL] Multiple CWP Servers Infected – Arbitrary PHP Code Execution via Publ

« on: November 27, 2025, 09:45:11 AM »

https://serveravatar.com/disable-php-functions/#top-php-functions-you-should-disable-5

Have you run into any issues with WordPress blocking these? eval() and assert()

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CSF Firewall / Setting up fail2ban

« on: November 11, 2025, 02:36:53 PM »

Hi Folks,

Anyone have a guide on setting up fail2ban? I was looking for protecting the user control panel for brute force - however i cannot for love nor money find the failed logins log for users?

Thanks

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CentOS-WebPanel GUI / Re: PHP_FPM Selector completely broken

« on: November 07, 2025, 10:25:27 AM »

Anyone else having this problem, looks like its linked to a corrupted update database and packages. Repairing the database and rebuilding the installed packages fixes the gui. Not sure how it happens but it fixes it for me.

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CentOS-WebPanel GUI / PHP version for control panel

« on: November 07, 2025, 10:20:15 AM »

Hi All,

Looks like the php version for port 2083 user panel is actually PHP 7.2.30 (cli) (built: Apr 29 2020). Which is crazy. Is there any known method to update this to newer PHP or any protections that can be put in place?

Thanks

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How to / Re: How to upgrade nginx to the latest version

« on: November 05, 2025, 08:46:31 PM »

I saw someone here updated direct through updates - but only up to 1.24, however 1.28 as a stable release is availble direct. Not sure what to do tbh.

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How to / How to upgrade nginx to the latest version

« on: November 05, 2025, 01:16:52 PM »

Hi Folks,

Does anyone have a clear guide on upgrading nginx without bringing the webserver to a halt? I am running Alma 8 and ideally would like to be as up to date as possible.

Thanks

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CentOS-WebPanel GUI / Re: PHP_FPM Selector completely broken

« on: October 07, 2025, 11:38:24 AM »

Okay its reared its ugly head again. We obviously cant just keep rebootin the server...

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CentOS-WebPanel GUI / Re: PHP_FPM Selector completely broken

« on: October 07, 2025, 09:22:28 AM »

That's often an initial recommended troubleshooting step -- reboot the machine and see if that fixes it! Glad it worked out for you!

Thank you, but with 30 end users our popularity would be at an ATL haha, thanks for your help though.

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PHP / Re: When will PHP 8.4 be released in CWP?

« on: October 07, 2025, 09:21:01 AM »

OK, got 1 way to work.

Surprisingly some extensions don't support PHP 8.4 yet like IMAP. Only has support up to 8.3.24.

But anyways...

https://starburst.help/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/install-php-8-4-in-control-web-panel-cwp-on-almalinux-9-from-repos/

Does this work for php-fpm as well? We are forced php-fpm server. Thank you