Install APF Firewall on a cPanel sever

Friday, 24 March 2006

To install APF firewall login to your server as root and follow this tutorial Type cd /usr/src wget http://rfxnetworks.com/downloads/apf-current.tar.gz tar -xvzf apf-current.tar.gz rm -f apf-current.tar.gz cd apf-* ./install.sh cd /etc/apf nano conf.apf Configure the ports # Common ingress (inbound) TCP ports IG_TCP_CPORTS="20,21,22,25,53,80,110,143,443,465,993,995,2082,2083,2086,2087,2095, 2096,3306,10000,35000_35999" please note that ports 2082 to port 2095 is mostly used by cpanel, and port 19638 is only use in ensim. # Common ingress (inbound) UDP ports IG_UDP_CPORTS="20,21,53,1040"[/green[ Exit nano and save and then restart apf (ctrl+x) y (enter) service apf start If APF is functioning properly and you are not locked out edit the conf.apf again nano conf.apf Set the DEVM parameter to 0 DEVM="0" Once done Exit and save the file. CTRL-x, y to save enter to confirm Restart APF service apf restart

 

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