fail2rest/README.md

#fail2rest

##Overview fail2rest is a small REST server that aims to allow full administration of a fail2ban server via HTTP

fail2rest will eventually be used as a backend to a small web app to make fail2ban administration and reporting easier.

##Requirements fail2rest is written in Golang, so it requires a working Golang installation. If you have never used Golang before install it from your package manager, and then follow these instructions to setup your enviroment.

Some libraries currently are not building on older versions of Go, I recommend running the newest stable of Golang.

##Installing Once you have a working Golang installation all you need to do is run

go get -v github.com/Sean-Der/fail2rest
go install -v github.com/Sean-Der/fail2rest

fail2rest will now be available as a binary in your GOPATH, you can run 'fail2rest' from the command line, or copy it somewhere else to make it available to all users.

Use whereis fail2rest to locate your fail2rest binary. Next you need to configure fail2rest, and then finally make it a system service.

##Configuration fail2rest is configured via config.json, the default is located here. To load your config.json you use the --config flag fail2rest --config=my_config.json

fail2rest has two options that be configured via config.json

• Fail2banSocket - The path to the fail2ban socket, can usually be found via grep socket /etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.conf you also have to run fail2rest as a user who has permissions to use this socket
• Addr - The address that fail2rest is served upon, it is usually best so serve to the loopback, and then allow access via nginx see an example config in the fail2web repository

##Running Once you have a config.json all you need to do is run fail2rest --config config.json

However, fail2rest is designed to run as a service, so init scripts are provided that allow easy management of fail2rest. They can be found here Download the appropriate init file your Distribution. You may need to customize your init script to load your config.json, but most scripts default to /etc/fail2rest.json

##License The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014 Sean DuBois

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