# Trying to connect to Jetpack from a Bedrock install but getting error when connecting to Wordpress.com

**URL:** https://discourse.roots.io/t/trying-to-connect-to-jetpack-from-a-bedrock-install-but-getting-error-when-connecting-to-wordpress-com/6480
**Category:** bedrock
**Created:** 2016-04-17T16:53:02Z
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## Post 15 by @strarsis — 2023-05-28T19:39:42Z

It could have something to do with recent Trellis disabling `XML-RPC` by default:

> [@How do we enable Jetpack now that xmlrpc is disabled?](https://discourse.roots.io/t/how-do-we-enable-jetpack-now-that-xmlrpc-is-disabled/25160):
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> I have tried disabling the fail2ban filter that disabled xmlrpc and adding the necassary addresses to ip\_whitelist. However I still receive An error occurred. Please try again. when I try to enable Jetpack security.yml ferm\_input\_list: - type: dport\_accept dport: [http, https] filename: nginx\_accept - type: dport\_accept dport: [ssh] saddr: "{{ ip\_whitelist }}" - type: dport\_limit dport: [ssh] seconds: 300 hits: 20 # Enable built-in fail2ban services or add …

[https://github.com/roots/trellis/pull/435](https://github.com/roots/trellis/pull/435)

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