diff --git a/helpers/fail2ban b/helpers/fail2ban
index 5e716c8f9..6c9fb22c7 100644
--- a/helpers/fail2ban
+++ b/helpers/fail2ban
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ ignoreregex =
         # the first sed deleteds possibles spaces and the second one extract the path
         logpath=$(grep logpath "$YNH_APP_BASEDIR/conf/f2b_jail.conf" | sed "s/ //g" | sed "s/logpath=//g")
         # replace the '__APP__' by the real app name in the path
-        logpath=$(sed "s/__APP__/$app/g")
+        logpath=${logpath//__APP__/$app}
     fi
 
     # Create the folder and logfile if they doesn't exist,