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Updates / Re: Is CWP dead? Looking for alternatives
« Last post by djprmf on January 12, 2026, 08:55:20 PM »@kandalf
Yes, CWP is in life support. Not dead, but as many other projects, is in the end of the road. There is just routine updates, not new features or really updates at all. No support to new software, nothing...
Updates are provided "as a number" - no communication on what have changed, no changelog, nothing.
Yes, there is "latest update one day ago"... and thats it. For what we know, nothing changed besides the "latest update date".
Proof: https://control-webpanel.com/changelog (last update in 2024)
If you have a project that needs a panel, look for alternatives - there are many other free and commercial panels.
And for the "CWP evangelists", don't even bother be toxic and reply to this/me.
Anyone that talk about this in the community is faced with a "you are a cPanel envagelist" or "move to cPanel". Dudes... WE ARE ASKING LEGIT QUESTIONS! If we are starting a project, we (Community) need to know if is a good starting point or not.
That toxic answers just lead users to another panels, and THAT IS NOT GOOD for CWP. You guys are destroying the panel and not even realize that!
Yes, CWP is in life support. Not dead, but as many other projects, is in the end of the road. There is just routine updates, not new features or really updates at all. No support to new software, nothing...
Updates are provided "as a number" - no communication on what have changed, no changelog, nothing.
Yes, there is "latest update one day ago"... and thats it. For what we know, nothing changed besides the "latest update date".
Proof: https://control-webpanel.com/changelog (last update in 2024)
If you have a project that needs a panel, look for alternatives - there are many other free and commercial panels.
And for the "CWP evangelists", don't even bother be toxic and reply to this/me.
Anyone that talk about this in the community is faced with a "you are a cPanel envagelist" or "move to cPanel". Dudes... WE ARE ASKING LEGIT QUESTIONS! If we are starting a project, we (Community) need to know if is a good starting point or not.
That toxic answers just lead users to another panels, and THAT IS NOT GOOD for CWP. You guys are destroying the panel and not even realize that!
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CSF Firewall / Re: Should we update CSF to V15??
« Last post by Starburst on January 12, 2026, 08:50:56 PM »CWP doesn't control CSF, never has, never will.
Which is good & bad about CWP, they allow you to choose and customize most of the features (Apache, PHP, ModSecurity, Nginx, MariaDB, etc.)
But we are trying to get them to incorporate this fork into CWP, instead of the dead one.
Then there are also CSF forks, that people have made paid, against the GPL. That some people may choose as well.
Which is good & bad about CWP, they allow you to choose and customize most of the features (Apache, PHP, ModSecurity, Nginx, MariaDB, etc.)
But we are trying to get them to incorporate this fork into CWP, instead of the dead one.
Then there are also CSF forks, that people have made paid, against the GPL. That some people may choose as well.
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Updates / Re: Is CWP dead? Looking for alternatives
« Last post by kandalf on January 12, 2026, 03:45:08 PM »Here we go Again...
CWP is NOT 'dead'.
Last updated came out on 2025-12-29
The last Apache update from them was 2.4.65, and you can manually update to 2.4.66 easily.
You can also upgrade manually to PHP 8.4 and 8.5 using the info at AlphaGNU.
But ionCube doesn't work with PHP 8.5 as of yet, it's still in beta.
https://www.ioncube.com/loaders.php
But by all means move to cPanel...
I've been working with CWP for years. We get some updates but zero communication and no roadmap. Critical security issues aren't communicated.
ionCube already supports PHP 8.4 in production, but CWP doesn't. The forum is frequently down or unresponsive. Many signs point to CWP not being in good shape. For example, "New Backup" has been in beta for at least 4 years.
It's hard to attract new paying customers with this approach.
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CSF Firewall / Re: Should we update CSF to V15??
« Last post by kandalf on January 12, 2026, 03:31:33 PM »It's NOT a 'workaround', it's an upgrade path.I'm more of a coder than a sysadmin. I don't remember seeing those announcements, but no problem. I'm finding the best solution now.
The original CSF made by Way to the Web Ltd. is dead.
Hence why you haven't been getting updates.
Not sure where you have been, but that was announced and posted all over the place last year.
Like overseer mentioned, this seems to be the right approach:
https://starburst.help/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/aetherinox-csf-firewall-update-to-v15-08/
But that's for v15 → v15.08. To go from v14 to v15, is this the correct tutorial?
https://starburst.help/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/csf-firewall-gplv3-release-tweaked-for-cwp/
CWP team should have made this upgrade automatic.
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PHP Selector / Re: Unable to compile ANY version with PHP Switcher and Selector / FPM selector
« Last post by overseer on January 12, 2026, 11:58:44 AM »And I can confirm the workaround works with legacy PHP versions (7.4.33) on AlmaLinux 8.
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Installation / Re: How I upgrade the MariaDB 10.5 to 10.6?
« Last post by Insan3Us on January 12, 2026, 10:11:35 AM »I solved the issue.
I had to remove the followings:
rpm -e --nodeps "mysql-common-8.0.44-1.el9_7.x86_64"
and
rpm -e --nodeps "mariadb-backup-10.5.29-3.el9_7.x86_64"
After that just normal installation.
Thank you guys as always ready to help!
I had to remove the followings:
rpm -e --nodeps "mysql-common-8.0.44-1.el9_7.x86_64"
and
rpm -e --nodeps "mariadb-backup-10.5.29-3.el9_7.x86_64"
After that just normal installation.
Thank you guys as always ready to help!
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Installation / Re: How I upgrade the MariaDB 10.5 to 10.6?
« Last post by Insan3Us on January 12, 2026, 06:38:11 AM »This is the link you want to share (how to upgrade to MariaDB 10.11 LTS):
https://www.alphagnu.com/topic/23-upgrade-mariadb-1011-in-cwp-centos-7-centos-8-stream-almalinux-78-rockylinux-78/
or
https://starburst.help/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/upgrade-mariadb-10-x-to-10-11-with-cwp-on-almalinux-9/
Thank you,
I have a little problem, when I try to choose a mariadb version doesn't show anything https://mariadb.org/download/?t-repo-config :
https://ibb.co/6JnqYwWr
As a step it shows that I need to choose first "Choose a distribution: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 (To Match your version of AlmaLinux)" but doesn't show where to choose that one... I have Almalinux 9..
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Installation / Re: How I upgrade the MariaDB 10.5 to 10.6?
« Last post by Starburst on January 12, 2026, 02:37:31 AM »From Insan3Us post they have already corrupted the CWP & the server by trying to remove MariaDB and re-install it like it's a bare EL9 server.
I hope that isn't the case, and they use the link above.
I hope that isn't the case, and they use the link above.
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Installation / Re: How I upgrade the MariaDB 10.5 to 10.6?
« Last post by overseer on January 12, 2026, 02:25:51 AM »This is the link you want to share (how to upgrade to MariaDB 10.11 LTS):
https://www.alphagnu.com/topic/23-upgrade-mariadb-1011-in-cwp-centos-7-centos-8-stream-almalinux-78-rockylinux-78/
or
https://starburst.help/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/upgrade-mariadb-10-x-to-10-11-with-cwp-on-almalinux-9/
https://www.alphagnu.com/topic/23-upgrade-mariadb-1011-in-cwp-centos-7-centos-8-stream-almalinux-78-rockylinux-78/
or
https://starburst.help/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/upgrade-mariadb-10-x-to-10-11-with-cwp-on-almalinux-9/
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CSF Firewall / Re: Should we update CSF to V15??
« Last post by overseer on January 12, 2026, 02:21:50 AM »Probably your best choice would be to update to Aetherinox's CSF fork, which is now at 15.08. It seems to be actively maintained and supports CWP directly:
https://starburst.help/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/aetherinox-csf-firewall-update-to-v15-08/
Alternately, the other promising fork for CSF is the Sentinel firewall supported by cPanel and available on GitHub:
https://github.com/sentinelfirewall/sentinel
https://starburst.help/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/aetherinox-csf-firewall-update-to-v15-08/
Alternately, the other promising fork for CSF is the Sentinel firewall supported by cPanel and available on GitHub:
https://github.com/sentinelfirewall/sentinel
