Posted 8 months ago #
I am having trouble making a post that includes the term 'selected from'. I have tried this now on two insatbces of wordpress and in each case, including those words in a post causes the post to fial with a 403 error. If I type selected morf then all is OK.
Yes, highly unlikely but it is so.
any ideas?
Regards
Nick
Sounds like mod_security kicking in. If you search around the forums (and elsewhere) you can turn up some ways to work-around or bypass it. I believe there are some interesting ways to use .htaccess to manage this.
Or you could work with your host to see if your phrase could be alowed.
Posted 8 months ago #
selected from clearly worked OK here. I tried disabling TinyMCE with no effect. and I tried disabling the visual editor. Again with no effect. If I edit the field in the database with phpmyAdmin it goes in and displays OK but again fails if I then use the editor. I got round it in the end by changing selected to chosen.
Wasted a half day chasing this!
Regards
Nick
Posted 8 months ago #
That's impressive, Chris - I will pass the query on to my hosting service provider.
Regards
Nick
Posted 8 months ago #
Just to wrap up - it was a problem with mod-rewrite. The solution proposed by the hosting provider was to disable the SecFilterEngine
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterEngine off
</IfModule>
<IfModule mod_security2.c>
SecFilterEngine off
</IfModule>
I understand that doesn't represent too much of a risk but I wonder if there aren't some lists that one can edit. No doubt that not simple.
Thanks for the tip.
Nick
it was a problem with mod-rewrite
thats not an issue with mod_rewrite, thats just what was proposed to you -- an issue with mod_security
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