CSF Error With MaxMind

Rachel B.
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Upon the start or restart of ConfigServer Security & Firewall (CSF), there's an error about MaxMind and a license.

As of 2019-12-29, MaxMind requires you to create an account on their site and generate a license key to use their databases.

This article with cover the process of installing a customer-provided license (MM_LICENSE_KEY) and ensuring MaxMind is set as the provider (CC_SRC).

An example of the error you may see is as follows:

*ERROR*: Country Code Lookups setting MM_LICENSE_KEY must be set in /etc/csf/csf.conf to continue using the MaxMind databases

Resolve MaxMind Error

IMPORTANT: A license key from MaxMind must be obtained to continue using the IP lookup features of CSF. InMotion Hosting does not provide a MaxMind license key. Otherwise, an error will be generated and the features will not work. Alternatively, you can change the Country Code Source (CC_SRC) value in /etc/csf/csf.conf from a 1 (MaxMind) to 2 (DB-IP, ipverse.net, and iptoasn.com). This is now the default on new installations of CSF.

  1. Log into Root WHM
  2. Under Plugins, click on ConfigServer Security & Firewall
  3. Under csf - ConfigServer Firewall, click on Firewall Configuration
  4. From the pull-down menu, select Country Code Lists and Settings
  5. Enter the MaxMind license into the MM_LICENSE_KEY =  field
  6. Make sure that the CC_SRC = option is set to 1 for MaxMind
  7. Scroll to the bottom and click on Change
  8. Click on Restart csf+lfd to activate the settings

Change Country Code Source Option

TIP: This can be followed to change the source from MaxMind to DB-IP, ipdeny.com, and iptoasn.com. They do not require a license.

  1. Log into Root WHM
  2. Under Plugins, click on ConfigServer Security & Firewall
  3. Under csf - ConfigServer Firewall, click on Firewall Configuration
  4. From the pull-down menu, select Country Code Lists and Settings
  5. Make sure that the CC_SRC = option is set to 2 for DB-IP, ipverse.net, and iptoasn.com
  6. Scroll to the bottom and click on Change
  7. Click on Restart csf+lfd to activate the settings
    TIP: If you want a quick command to run, as Root, if you don't want to manually do this, run:
    sed -ine "s/CC_SRC = \"1\"/CC_SRC = \"2\"/g" /etc/csf/csf.conf; csf -r

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