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CWP is now 4 versions behind with 8.3 Last version in CWP is 8.3.21, php.net just released 8.3.25 today which fixes additional bugs & CVE's. CWP has release several version, but hasn't updated the PHP versions 8.1, 8.2 or 8.3. Even though they contain critical bug & CVE's fixes. @Sandeep B. Why is CWP failing so behind??

It would make life allot easier if PHP was updated in CWP. :/

Either PHP 8.3 or 8.4 Another 8.3 (8.3.24) release just came out on 2025-07-31, along with 8.4.11 So now CWP is 3 version behind on 8.3, 2 versions behind on 8.2 and 8.1, and it doesn't even have 8.4.x If you could post the build string here, or update the guide for 8.3 to include ionCube, LDAP, and mailparse that would be great, and I could go modify all the servers. Is it just as simple as adding --enable-ldap --enable-mailparse ? Thanks

Just saw your post, sorry, guess I need to come on here more also. Am usually hanging out in the CWP Forums. That seems to still be a bug in CWP with it installs ModSecurity. But it is simple to fix. nano /usr/local/apache/conf.d/mod_security.confAt the end of line 2 – Add – liblua-5.4.so Save & Exit systemctl restart httpd

@Sandeep B. Since CWP is now 2 versions behind the current versions, was wondering if you could post how to manually update PHP and PHP-FPM? Along with the options for ionCube, LDAP, and mailparse. Thanks

I would recommend installing CWP using AlmaLinux 9.6 (Current version of this post)

Works on AlmaLinux 9 & 10.

As mentioned by others, AlmaLinux 8.x is recommended, but that OS is in it' extended security phase. Which means 8.10 is the last version. All new servers we put online are AlmaLinux 9.x, which a couple days ago had some large updates. EL9 has some bugs like you can't go below PHP 7.4.x, so if you need some old PHP version, then EL8 would be the only choice. It also has some quirks like CWP->CWP Migration doesn't work. Otherwise, it is pretty stable already.

And all of the hacker's they have and allow on their network...

Just a FYI, JetBack seems to work with CWP unofficially. When you access the control panel for it, it shows all the CWP user accounts. Only draw back I see, if they would have to use a different control panel, UN & PW to access it.

Check your main config file for the OWASP rules. Sounds like a path wasn't set correctly.

Tried it, still isn't fully working. The servers use ModSecurity2.9.8 with the OWASP CRS ruleset on Apache 2.4.63 Thanks

@Navid Tried your modification, but LFD gave an error:

We run AlmaLinux 9.x Try to run these: dnf install php-cli libsodium libsodium-devel php-sodium php-pecl-zip php-pecl-mailparse php-mbstring php-pear php-devel php-pecl-imagickpecl channel-update pecl.php.netYou may need to recompile afterwards.

I got ModSecurity 2.9.8 working on CWP with Apache and the OWASP latest Ruleset (4.11.0) https://kb.starburstservices.com/control-web-panel-cwp/control-web-panel-cwp-admin-tutorials/update-modsecurity-running-cwp-and-apache-on-almalinux-8-9/ ModSecurity 3.x isn't recommended yet @Sandeep I'll send you a DM

Currently I’m using: ./configure --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxsShould I be building it another way for CWP?

Yes, you can. You will create the main account: User Accounts → New Account. For the additional domain, you will create that under the menu: Domains → Add Domain. That will ask you for the user, which you created above under User Account. Then you can either point to the root of the same directory, or a sub-folder. Or you can user Cloudflare to redirect the domain to another.

So it seems by default CWP send out 3 paragraphs with attacks, and the above code, cut it down to 1 paragraph. Which in turn sites like AbuseIPDB can accept automatically.

Figured it out.

Sandeep, I was using the additional code so LFD would just send the 1 paragraph out to the blacklists, but when I switch to OWASP latest it stopped working. Any ideas? Thanks

Since the Comodo ruleset it dead, has anyone had luck getting Apache, Mod_Security, CSF/LFD and OWASP CRS all working tother? I see from the log file, entries are being added, and /var/log/lfd/log show the file is being monitored. BUT no email notifications are being sent, and the bad IP isn’t being added to /etc/csf/csf.deny to be blocked by CSF. Weird part is, Comodo and OWASP old both work. This is a problem with OWASP latest. CWP version is 0.9.8.1190

Just wanted to confirm this is the fix to migrate CWP from AL8 to AL9 using CWP → CWP Migration.

RoundCube 1.5.9 works greats also. Just need to change the 8 to a 9.

I just always use https://www.alphagnu.com/topic/24-cwp-–-control-web-panel-install-latest-apache-2462-version/

No, The OWASP 4.x ruleset works with Mod Security 2.9.7 and Apache 2.4.62 The only problem, is notifications are not being sent by LFD from the Mod Security log (something isn't being triggered). Otherwise when I look at the log, attacks are being blocked as they should be.