How I’m Continuing to Use CSF After ConfigServer’s Shutdown

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When news broke that ConfigServer (Way to the Web Ltd.) would shut down on August 31, 2025, it sent shockwaves through the hosting community. Like many longtime users, I was both surprised and disappointed by how this shutdown was handled. The announcement gave us barely a month’s notice to scramble for solutions. As someone who… continue reading.
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Great guide Hayden! but for those that missed to update to 15.00 - updating now is a bit tricky as in the code there is still a check that download servers must start with download, took me a while to figure why I was unable to update now..

Please consider adding sentinelfirewall/sentinel to the list. It’s a csf fork that we at OpenPanel are maintaining and invited DirectAdmin, cPanel and CyberPanel to use

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Welcome to the forums @stefanpejcic

I will edit and add this. Thanks for this input!

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How did you get around this?

Noted on sentinelfirewall.

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I removed that check from a file, but also just re-run of the install script has the same effect, as csf does not really have a good update logic, they just run the install script to insert any files that Are missing