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Information / Re: CWP: What is the future of the project? Is it still the right choice?
« Last post by Namaste on August 02, 2026, 04:22:04 PM »I ditched cwp last year for virtualmin and never looked back. I had used cwp probably for 5 years with no significant developer advancements. cwp has more bugs than windows. No one cares, no one replies except members of the forum. In the first years, there were many big contributors, but they have all jumped ship or just lost interest. Life goes on. The new generation has no patience or interest in fixing the absolute worst choice for open source webpanel.
Virtualmin is stable and after a year i have never encountered a single bug. GUI is excellent but takes a while to adjust after using cwp for many years. I am running on ubuntu. and you should too. Centos days are done. When I hear centos I think Netscape, netmeeting, and Napster.
Centoscwp doesnt even advertise this forum on their website. And there is a good reason why they are not doing so. They dont want potential new users to learn the truth. On the positive side, this forum is now operating on https after 12 years of no ssl certs.
Stop wasting your time and switch to virtualmin or aapanel. Signing up for centoscwp means daily visits to this fixit forum for the next 5 years. Over the past year I have never needed to visit any support forum for virtualmin.
Virtualmin is stable and after a year i have never encountered a single bug. GUI is excellent but takes a while to adjust after using cwp for many years. I am running on ubuntu. and you should too. Centos days are done. When I hear centos I think Netscape, netmeeting, and Napster.
Centoscwp doesnt even advertise this forum on their website. And there is a good reason why they are not doing so. They dont want potential new users to learn the truth. On the positive side, this forum is now operating on https after 12 years of no ssl certs.
Stop wasting your time and switch to virtualmin or aapanel. Signing up for centoscwp means daily visits to this fixit forum for the next 5 years. Over the past year I have never needed to visit any support forum for virtualmin.
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Updates / Re: CWP Cannot be Installed in Alma 8 - Devel repo Issue
« Last post by Netino on August 02, 2026, 03:58:42 PM »With AL8 modsec is not working, but ill check what you said, but not even the php is working, and i mean the only php working is the one for the panel, php version switch and php-fpm cannot been installed in alma linux 8, is not working, everything is broke.
What are your Webservers choice? (Apache only, nginx only, Apache<->nginx, etc.)
There is a problem with Modsecurity-nginx conector, it's a headache to fix.
The problem is with Modsecurity-nginx connector, must be downgraded.
It is a serious problem, and the bug only appears under specific conditions—specifically, when rendering large pages exceeding 500 KB.
I contacted the developers of the ModSecurity-Nginx connector last year and opened an issue because the bug was cutting off part of the page, and they fixed it. But it looks like there was a regression problem, and the bug has been reintroduced. There’s no other option; if you’re using Nginx, you have to downgrade.
The ModSecurity-nginx connector eats up a portion of the resulting HTML page.
If your CWP have a few sites, not problem. But if your server have dozen of sites, CWP ends up completely broken, unreadable.
I spent three days, to find the problem.
But the problem is specific to Modsecurity-nginx connector, if you use nginx only web server.
Modsecurity for Apache is all ok, normally. Or it should be working normally; the problem many people are experiencing lies with the CWP interface for ModSecurity, not with ModSecurity for Apache itself.
Regards,
Netino
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Updates / The version stays at 1.6
« Last post by venty on August 02, 2026, 01:12:09 PM »Hi,
Almost always when I log in as root it tells me that there is a new version of the panel, but when I select it it doesn't update, the version stays at 1.6, what should I do and is this normal? I use AL 9.6...
BR
Venty
Almost always when I log in as root it tells me that there is a new version of the panel, but when I select it it doesn't update, the version stays at 1.6, what should I do and is this normal? I use AL 9.6...
BR
Venty
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Updates / Re: CWP Cannot be Installed in Alma 8 - Devel repo Issue
« Last post by Starburst on August 02, 2026, 01:10:25 PM »With AL8 modsec is not working, but ill check what you said, but not even the php is working, and i mean the only php working is the one for the panel, php version switch and php-fpm cannot been installed in alma linux 8, is not working, everything is broke.
Yea, tried to update PHP, and just got the wheel spinning.
Kinda looks like Windows when it doesn't want to do something.
Take a look at your error, and see if this can help:
https://starburst.help/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/apache-wont-start-after-enabling-mod_security/
Good thing the settings can be done thru CLI & nano.
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Updates / Re: CWP Cannot be Installed in Alma 8 - Devel repo Issue
« Last post by Reikor on August 02, 2026, 04:44:33 AM »With AL8 modsec is not working, but ill check what you said, but not even the php is working, and i mean the only php working is the one for the panel, php version switch and php-fpm cannot been installed in alma linux 8, is not working, everything is broke.
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E-Mail / Cannot Access emails in Roundcube 1.5.8
« Last post by stoo23 on August 02, 2026, 02:03:47 AM »Having had a perfectly Stable and working server and Roundcube, for quite some time,... sometime around the 20th or 22nd of June, It became impossible to actually view, New OR Older emails via Roundcube.
The GUI interface loads and runs fine for All accounts but am 'presented' with;
The above error warning appears when trying to view any Folders or defined storage areas withing the Roundcube GUI.
Perhaps strangely, emails CAN still be sent and the interface works fine.
I went back through the Update logs prior to and around the time it stopped working and can't really see anything that 'changed' and may be stopping it from working properly.
Anyone have ANY ideas or suggestions ??
Roundcube: 1.5.8
php: 8.2.28
Alma: 8.10 (Cerulean Leopard)
kernel: 4.18.0-553.147.1.el8_10.x86_64
The GUI interface loads and runs fine for All accounts but am 'presented' with;
The above error warning appears when trying to view any Folders or defined storage areas withing the Roundcube GUI.
Perhaps strangely, emails CAN still be sent and the interface works fine.
I went back through the Update logs prior to and around the time it stopped working and can't really see anything that 'changed' and may be stopping it from working properly.
Anyone have ANY ideas or suggestions ??
Roundcube: 1.5.8
php: 8.2.28
Alma: 8.10 (Cerulean Leopard)
kernel: 4.18.0-553.147.1.el8_10.x86_64
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Updates / Re: CWP 1.5 / cwpsrv-1.24.0-2 update: Are GUI modules -ModSec, Firewall, Yum, New Ba
« Last post by Starburst on August 01, 2026, 11:35:46 PM »Would help to know what OS you are running?
As it seems some OS'es are working OK, while others aren't.
AL8 was the crossover from YUM to DNF, either worked, but on AL9 and later dnf should be used.
I have two VPS running AL8 and AL9. At first, AL8 gave me more trouble and required more attention, but right now the situation is equally precarious on both. So far, I am managing to keep the VPS operational.Note: The AL8 is an upgrade from CentOS 7, which took quite a lot of work.
At least the CWP Migration Tools worked between CentOS 7 and AL8.
I'm not sure, but I think it's still broken in AL9.
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Updates / Re: CWP 1.6 update from 1.4: ModSec, Firewall, Yum, New Ba
« Last post by NAZA on August 01, 2026, 09:37:27 PM »"3. Yum Manager (FIXED)
This module is finally working flawlessly. It no longer gets stuck on "checking for updates" nor returns 404 errors. It properly syncs with the OS package manager in the background and displays the green "All packages are up to date!" badge accurately, mirroring terminal updates."
When I click on installed packages i get a blank list. Does yours work?
Hi! Yes, I am experiencing the exact same issue after upgrading to CWP 1.6, and I have found the root cause.
The blank list is a Front-End rendering issue caused by a broken file path (hardcoded error) in the new update. When you open the browser's developer console, you will see that the page breaks because it fails to load a JavaScript dependency:
* It throws a 404 Not Found error for: /admin/design/charts/sparklines/jquery.sparkline.js
* Because this file fails to load, it crashes the subsequent jQuery scripts, preventing .DataTable() from initializing and drawing the list of packages.
The file actually exists on the server filesystem (/usr/local/cwpsrv/htdocs/admin/design/plugins/...), but the developers accidentally omitted the /plugins/ directory in the source code of the yum_manager module.
So it's a general bug in this release that CWP developers need to hotfix in the next build.
Regards,
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Updates / [BUG] Yum Manager - "Installed Packages" blank table root cause found (CWP 1.6)
« Last post by NAZA on August 01, 2026, 09:35:14 PM »Confirmed Diagnosis: Path bug in Yum Manager module (CWP 1.6)
Hello everyone,
I confirm the cause of the failure regarding the blank table in "Installed Packages". This is not an issue with AlmaLinux 8 or dnf commands on my VPS, but rather a static path bug introduced in the web interface of v1.6 or possibly earlier.
Details of the finding:
1. Upon loading the page, the web console throws a 404 Not Found error trying to fetch the script from:
.../admin/design/charts/sparklines/jquery.sparkline.js
2. When checking the internal directory tree of cwpsrv, the actual file is located under an additional subfolder:
/usr/local/cwpsrv/htdocs/admin/design/plugins/charts/sparklines/jquery.sparkline.js
For the CWP development team:
There is an omission of the /plugins/ directory in the sparklines script call within the backend of the yum_manager PHP file. This error halts the execution of subsequent scripts and prevents the initialization of the .DataTable() function, which is responsible for rendering the package list in the GUI.
Hello everyone,
I confirm the cause of the failure regarding the blank table in "Installed Packages". This is not an issue with AlmaLinux 8 or dnf commands on my VPS, but rather a static path bug introduced in the web interface of v1.6 or possibly earlier.
Details of the finding:
1. Upon loading the page, the web console throws a 404 Not Found error trying to fetch the script from:
.../admin/design/charts/sparklines/jquery.sparkline.js
2. When checking the internal directory tree of cwpsrv, the actual file is located under an additional subfolder:
/usr/local/cwpsrv/htdocs/admin/design/plugins/charts/sparklines/jquery.sparkline.js
For the CWP development team:
There is an omission of the /plugins/ directory in the sparklines script call within the backend of the yum_manager PHP file. This error halts the execution of subsequent scripts and prevents the initialization of the .DataTable() function, which is responsible for rendering the package list in the GUI.
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Updates / Re: CWP version 1.3 and 1.4 issues
« Last post by chrisk on August 01, 2026, 02:47:00 PM »From Dutch_mike - "for example when i want to install 7.4, i can select that. when i want to change the options it opens the option screen but the option never show, not the normal one neither the ini file option. it keeps loading
and even i don't want to change the options and just use the basic installation i cant click the save and build option as the the mouse shows the circle with the stroke through it 🚫 as im not allowed to click it"
I am experiencing the same thing Version 1.6 does not fix this either,
and even i don't want to change the options and just use the basic installation i cant click the save and build option as the the mouse shows the circle with the stroke through it 🚫 as im not allowed to click it"
I am experiencing the same thing Version 1.6 does not fix this either,
