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Configure Fail2ban with Nginx on Ubuntu

Category: VPS Setup

Secure Nginx with Fail2ban on Ubuntu—install with

apt install nginx fail2ban

then create /etc/fail2ban/jail d/nginx-auth conf with

nano /etc/fail2ban/jail.d/nginx-auth.conf

[nginx-http-auth]\nenabled = true\nport = 80,443\nfilter = nginx-http-auth\nlogpath = /var/log/nginx/error.log\nmaxretry = 5\nbantime = 3600

Restart with

systemctl restart fail2ban

open ports with

ufw allow 80 && ufw allow 443

Enable Nginx auth logging in /etc/nginx/nginx conf with error_log /var/log/nginx/error log warn; On Hetzner test with failed logins—check

fail2ban-client status nginx-http-auth

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