CSF Firewall is still active on GitHub and continues to be a reliable security option for both VPS and dedicated servers. Even though the original developers ended official support, the project remains available through community-maintained repositories, and its final stable release is fully functional. CSF still provides strong features like intrusion detection, login monitoring, IP blocking, and flexible firewall rule management, making it a safe and effective choice for server administrators. As long as it is installed from a current GitHub source and configured properly, CSF remains a solid firewall solution that many hosting providers and system admins continue to use with confidence.
- Log in to your server as the root user via SSH.
- Run the
cd /root
command to change to the root directory. - Run the following command to download CSF:
wget https://github.com/waytotheweb/scripts/raw/refs/heads/main/csf.tgz - Run the
tar -xzf csf.tgz
command to decompress the downloaded file. - Run the
cd csf
command to change to the csf directory. - Run the
./install.cpanel.sh
command to install CSF.
Now log back into WHM and refresh to see CSF in the plugin section on the bottom left.
