Title: Installing plugin in WordPress – files missing?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Installing plugin in WordPress – files missing?

 *  [Michael Hole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelhole/)
 * (@michaelhole)
 * [10 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugin-in-wordpress-files-missing/)
 * I am trying to install this, and it has activated fine, but I can’t find where
   to configure what I want it to do (block Brute Force Attack IP addresses). In
   the installation instructions it says:
 * 1. Copy `wordpress.conf` to your `fail2ban/filters.d` directory
    1. Edit `jail.
   local` to include something like: to copy the wordpress.conf file to: (etc)
 * But I can’t find the /filders.d directory under the plugin folder, nor can I 
   find the jail.local file.
 * I must be missing something here. Would love some help.
 * Thanks!
 * PS. I’m sure that once I’ve sorted those bits there will be more things I need
   to do, like, can I specify what login usernames to look for as there are a copy
   that this attack is using. I’ve looked for detailed instructions online but they
   all seem to go down to the server level, and now I’m wondering if this is the
   right plugin to be using in my situation. Thanks again!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-fail2ban/)

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 *  [chaosratt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chaosratt/)
 * (@chaosratt)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugin-in-wordpress-files-missing/#post-6347359)
 * HI,
    This is referring to you’re system’s fail2ban folders and not the plugin,
   so for example under Ubuntu 14.04 the locations are:
 * /etc/fail2ban/filter.d/
    /etc/fail2ban/jail.conf
 *  [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
 * (@ovidiu)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugin-in-wordpress-files-missing/#post-6347361)
 * [@michaelhole](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelhole/):
 * regarding:
 * > I’ve looked for detailed instructions online but they all seem to go down to
   > the server level, and now I’m wondering if this is the right plugin to be using
   > in my situation.
 * This plugin is meant to be working with fail2ban, which is a program you run 
   on your server so this is server-level too.
 * If you are looking for a solution on application level, check out Wordfence (
   the free version)

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 * Last reply from: [Ovidiu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ovidiu/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installing-plugin-in-wordpress-files-missing/#post-6347361)
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