Fail2Ban custom filter is not available for selection in jail management

[Konstantinos_Koutelidakis]

Hi!

We are successfully using fail2ban on our server (CentOS 6.6, Plesk 12.0.18), that is, jails running and blocking potential intruders

However, we tried to create a custom jail for the CMS that is being used by most of our clients.

I followed the instructions (Tools & Settings > IP Address Banning (Fail2Ban) > Jails > Manage Filters > Add Filter) and created the filter I wanted, but then it does not appear in the list, even though it displays a message reading that the filter was created successfully. Then, if I try to create a new Jail, the filter is not available from the list.

Looking at the directory /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/ I can find a file that has the same name as the filter I created, with a .local extension (the file name does not contain whitespaces or other special characters)

Is there any suggestion about this?

 

[Tsi-Shawn]

Make that file with a .conf extension.

Here is one that I have created:

apache-wp-login.conf

and inside

[Definition]
failregex = <HOST> - - .* "POST /wp-login.php HTTP/.*" 200

ignoreregex =

This shows in my list after creating it.

 

[Konstantinos_Koutelidakis]

Thank you for your reply.

I had tried renaming it to .conf but it did had not worked.

Adding the ignoreregex line solved it though.

Thanks again!

 

[Tsi-Shawn]

Glad you were able to get it going