APF to CSF Firewall

[Tarak Nath]

Hello,

Currently we have purchased a new VPS server and there is default APF firewall. But we are very familiar with CSF firewall as we are using CSF firewall in our dedicated servers. APF firewall is fully unknown for us and never use it.

Is it possible to use CSF instead APF ? If yes then what is the exact procedure we have to do ? Below are the few information of our VPS server, kindly go through and help us.

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Installed cPanel Version Details
[email protected] [/]# /usr/local/cpanel/cpanel -V
86.0 (build 18)
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Current cPanel Environment:

[email protected] [/]# cat /var/cpanel/envtype
vzcontainer
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OS Version:

[email protected] [/]# cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.8.2003 (Core)
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Any suggestion would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Tarak Nath

 

[dalem]

CSF Will detect if APF is installed & has a script to remove it
stop apf
apf -f
just run the scripts below after you install csf

sh /usr/local/csf/bin/remove_apf_bfd.sh

or if you want to do it manually before

unintall APF & BFD

apf -f
rm -fv /etc/cron.daily/fw
rm -fv /etc/cron.daily/apf
rm -fv /etc/cron.d/refresh.apf
rm -fv /etc/logrotate.d/apf
rm -fv /var/log/apf*
/sbin/chkconfig apf off
/sbin/chkconfig apf --del
rm -fv /etc/init.d/apf
rm -Rfv /etc/apf

rm -fv /etc/cron.d/bfd
rm -fv /etc/logrotate.d/bfd
rm -fv /var/log/bfd*
rm -Rfv /usr/local/bfd

 

[Tarak Nath]

Thank you @dalem for sharing the info.

So our VPS (vzcontainer ) server is compatible for CSF LFD. And no need to take any backup of existing firewall rules it will be applied for CSF automatically ?

Regards,
Tarak Nath

 

[cPanelLauren]

Hello,

I'd create a backup of the firewall rules, APF is a similar type of firewall as CSF so otherwise you shouldn't need to do anything else.