How to install and configure CSF ( Config Server Firewall ) in linux

Hello All,

In this video tutorial i will show, 'How to install and configure CSF ( Config Server Firewall ) in centos and how to enabled the UI support in csf.

Install required perl modules :-

yum -y install perl perl-IO-Socket-SSL.noarch perl-Net-SSLeay perl-Net-LibIDN perl-IO-Socket-INET6 perl-Socket6 perl-Digest-MD5

CSF Installation Procedure :-

cd /usr/src
cd csf

Next, if you have the required iptables modules to run csf on your server.

Enable csf UI support :-

UI = "1"
UI_PORT = "2286"
TCP_IN & TCP6_IN = add port 2286 at the end.
UI_USER = "csf_admin"
UI_PASS = "csf_password"

Testing = "0" #Remove csf from testing mode.

Restart both csf & lfd services with the following command to affect with new configuration.
csf -r
service csf restart
service lfd restart

let's make ssh port from 22 to 5335

All done !!!

Have a good day !!!