cPFence UI is Here – Security Management, Now with a Mouse! - Enhance Control Panel

cPFence UI is Here – Security Management, Now with a Mouse!

Shaijee

Well done @cPFence

cPFence

Version 3.3.29 (11th February 2025)

Added

Site-Specific Bulk Actions:
- Now you can apply bulk tool changes to all sites or only selected ones directly from the Admin UI.
- A huge time-saver, optimized for servers with hundreds of sites.
Bulk Search Engine Indexing Control:
- Enable or disable search engine indexing for all or selected WordPress sites from the UI or CLI.
- Available in the Admin UI under Bulk Tools.
- For CLI users:
- cpfence --bulk-disable-search-engine-index: Disable search engine indexing for all WordPress sites.
- cpfence --bulk-enable-search-engine-index: Enable search engine indexing for all WordPress sites.
Bulk WordPress Updates for Selected Sites:
- Bulk update WordPress core, themes, and plugins from the Admin UI, either for all sites or only selected ones.

Improved

Optimized the cPFence IPDB for upcoming IPv6 support.
MonitorPro Enhancements:
- Now supports monitoring internal pages, not just the homepage.

cPFence

Version 3.3.30 (11th February 2025)

Added

Real-Time Root Login Alerts for Enhanced Security:
- cPFence now detects root logins and instantly notifies you via email. Stay informed about who is accessing your server and when.
- You can disable these notifications in:
  Admin UI → System Settings → Email & Resource Notifications → Send Root Login Notification → Off
Custom Idle Session Timeout Per Website:
- Now you have full control over session timeouts for individual WordPress sites.
- Simply define CPFENCE_CUSTOM_IDLE_TIMEOUT in the MU plugin, and your preferred timeout setting will persist across updates—ensuring a personalized and secure experience for each site.
Bulk Maintenance Mode Management (Tool #44 in WP-AutoShield Arsenal):
- Enable or disable maintenance mode for all or selected sites in just one click—directly from the Admin UI.
- More powerful tools are on the way.

cPFence

Version 3.3.31 (14th February 2025)

Added
- Enhance v12 Compatibility:
cPFence is now fully compatible with Enhance v12. Please follow these steps to upgrade safely:

Backup your cPFence settings and uninstall the old version:
cpfence --backup-cpf-settings
cp /tmp/cpfence_backup_* /root/
cpfence --uninstall
Upgrade to Enhance v12 (latest version):
https://enhance.com/docs/getting-started/upgrading-from-v11.html
Reinstall cPFence using the install command from your client area:
Example:
bash <( curl -ks https://api.cpfence.app/install.sh) -k Your-Key
This will automatically install the latest v12-compatible version of cPFence.
Restore your settings ,restart and enjoy! :
cp /root/cpfence_backup_* /tmp
cpfence --restore-cpf-settings
cpfence --restart

- Cluster Sites Information Page:
Get a complete overview of your hosting environment at a glance. This page provides a real-time summary of all domains in your cluster, giving instant visibility into:

Server name
User name
Uptime status (integrated with MonitorPro for live monitoring)
Downtime tracking
Not monitored domains

Available in: Admin UI → System Dashboard → Show Sites Info
Note: This feature is only available on the main control panel servers.

Special Offer – Enhance v12 Celebration Discount

To celebrate the release of Enhance v12, we are offering limited-time discounts on cPFence unlimited server licenses:

Coupon v12ONE : $38 (instead of $48) for 1 unlimited server license – valid for yearly purchases only. Offer expires in 3 days.
Coupon v12TEN : $250 (instead of $300) for 10 unlimited server licenses – valid for yearly purchases only. Offer expires in 3 days.

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bgeek

cPFence Great work, bro, great work!

rdbf

cPFence

Up and running again!

Noticed that when Manually running WP-Autoshield via the UI, it errors out after 9/44 with Removing Blacklisted plugins. I have none blacklisted though.

8Dweb

cPFence Thank you for this. It will make certain things related to understanding where domains are located much easier. Once v. 12 shakes out a bit more we will follow that upgrade path and then upgrade cpfence on each server. Your team has been great.

AdamM

It's great to see the Enhance community supporting each other so much!

cosmoshosting

Thanks for getting an update out so fast and all the massive improvements since when you first launched cPFence.
Upgraded to v12 and reinstalled cPFence, the settings restore worked well and the modules appear to be back immediately blocking bad ip's.

Have a great weekend

cPFence

cosmoshosting

We couldn’t have made it this far without the support of this great community, and people like you. Have a wonderful weekend!

cPFence

rdbf

Welcome back! Thanks for pointing that out, it’ll be fixed soon.

Meanwhile, you can work around it by adding any plugin name to the blacklist :

nano /var/log/cpfenceav/blacklisted-wp-plugins.txt

sikmo

@cPFence just a quick question. Wouldn't be better / easier to do a web based ui with all already running? Instead of terminal based "ui"?

cPFence

sikmo

For this, we need the Enhance Framework, which isn’t ready yet. It’s already “planned” on their roadmap with no specific releases yet, but instead of waiting, we went ahead and built this local UI to save time and improve usability right now.

As for an external, central UI , that’s not on our roadmap at all, for two main reasons:

GDPR compliance wouldn’t be possible with this approach. Our main paying clients require this as a must, so it’s a no-go.
Enhance is already a central control panel for all servers, and once the framework is released, we’re sure most users will prefer a built-in UI over any external solution. That would make an external central UI practically useless. And we totally get it, that’s the power of Enhance after all. It’s designed to give you one admin panel for all your servers. Enhance is central by nature.

sikmo

cPFence I wouldn't expect external UI, more like UI on custom port on ip that control panel is.

I would think it would be better for a lot if users. On top if that, you could link your support docs to specific parts to read more.

I know my ways in terminal and it's fine. But if there was web based UI running locally e.g created website in control panel I could add domain to (point at it) I would be really glad and I think many other users too. Plus it could increase usage of your products for people for whom terminal is not first or second choice.

cPFence

sikmo I wouldn't expect external UI, more like UI on custom port on ip that control panel is.

I totally get your point, and I agree that it would improve usability a lot. But for this to happen, it would raise security concerns and potential issues.

Also, once Enhance releases the framework, users will start asking for a built-in UI, and by then, we’d be forced to drop this “workaround” UI and rebuild everything from scratch. It’s just a matter of time before that happens. So instead of putting effort into something temporary, we’d rather focus on solutions that will last and align with Enhance’s long-term direction.

cPFence

8Dweb

Thank you! Glad you found the new feature useful. With Docker out of the way, we’re working on lots of exciting new features coming soon.

Yeah, we’re thinking the same, probably giving it another week or so to let things settle before upgrading our production servers.

iotivedo

@cPFence To be honest, I waited to get the first licenses because the idea of having a centralised panel for all servers was too tempting. But seeing the commitment to the Enhance community, the many updates, guides... I decided to start trying CPFence seriously... still with the hope that a centralised UI for the entire cluster will arrive 😃 In the meantime, thanks for what you do...
from now on I'm on board too 😃

cPFence

iotivedo

Welcome aboard! Glad to have you as a valued cPFence user. Once the Enhance team finalizes the framework, we’ll be sure to build a centralized built-in UI on top of it.

8Dweb

@cPFence quick question, we have run cpfence --update and yet:
You are already using the latest cPFence Full version: 3.3.30

Is the .32 version only for Enhance v. 12?

This is not a problem if that is the case, but we will not be updating to v12 until the volume of bugs/issues dwindles significantly from what is happening up through today.

leonardo

8Dweb we have same thing and we are on v11 and we also plan to upgrade only in a few weeks probably until bugs are ironed out 😃

cPFence

8Dweb

Yes, the new versions will be for Enhance v12 only, as the new database features won’t work with Docker-based MySQL. Same here, we’re holding off on updating until things settle down and bug fix releases stop. Once that happens, we’ll run thorough tests and share our findings.