---
title: "Fail2Ban Config Generator - Free Tool | Bit Refinery"
url: "https://bitrefinery.com/tools/fail2ban-generator"
description: "Generate a complete Fail2Ban jail.local configuration with pre-built jails for SSH, Nginx, Apache, Postfix, WordPress, and more."
lastmod: "2026-08-01"
source: "auto-generated from SSG HTML"
---

# Fail2Ban Config Generator

Security & Compliance

Generate a complete Fail2Ban jail.local configuration with pre-built jails for SSH, Nginx, Apache, Postfix, WordPress, and more.

### Global Defaults

Ban Time

SecondsMinutesHoursDays

Find Time

SecondsMinutesHoursDays

Max Retries

Ban Action

Ignore IPs (space-separated CIDRs or IPs)

Enable incremental banning (doubles ban time for repeat offenders)

### Jails1 enabled

#### SSH (sshd)

Recommended

Blocks brute-force SSH login attempts.

Overrides (leave blank for defaults)

Max Retry

Ban Time

Find Time

#### SSH DDoS

Blocks SSH connection flooding before authentication.

#### Nginx HTTP Auth

Blocks failed HTTP basic auth attempts on Nginx.

#### Nginx Bot Search

Blocks bots scanning for vulnerable URLs (wp-admin, phpmyadmin, etc).

#### Nginx Bad Request

Blocks clients sending malformed HTTP requests.

#### Nginx Rate Limit

Blocks IPs exceeding Nginx limit\_req rate limits.

#### Apache Auth

Blocks failed HTTP auth on Apache.

#### Apache Overflows

Blocks Apache buffer overflow and long request attempts.

#### Apache Bad Bots

Blocks known malicious user-agent strings.

#### Postfix SMTP Auth

Blocks brute-force SMTP authentication attempts.

#### Postfix DDoS

Blocks SMTP connection flooding and dictionary attacks.

#### Dovecot

Blocks brute-force IMAP/POP3 login attempts.

#### WordPress Login

Blocks brute-force wp-login.php attempts via access log.

#### WordPress XML-RPC

Blocks xmlrpc.php abuse used for amplification attacks.

### Companion Firewall Rules

Optional rate-limiting rules to pair with Fail2Ban as a first line of defense.

\# Fail2Ban jail.local configuration
\# Generated by Bit Refinery Tools — 2026-08-01
\[DEFAULT\]
bantime  \= 10m
findtime \= 10m
maxretry \= 5
banaction \= iptables-multiport
ignoreip \= 127.0.0.1/8 ::1
\[sshd\]
enabled  \= true
filter   \= sshd
port     \= ssh
logpath  \= /var/log/auth.log

Configuration is generated entirely in your browser. Review generated rules before applying to production systems. Place `jail.local` in `/etc/fail2ban/` and restart the service.