adamwhiles
Member
Posted 3 years ago #
Ok, I have tried to reinstall and redownload and everything I can think of but nothing has worked. When I goto Options->Writing and click the Update Options button I get the following:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/options.php on this server.
ApacheR Server at http://www.phpshack.net Port 80
Not sure what the problem is, hoping I might get a few clues here.
BTW, I contacted my hosting support and mod_security is enabled, if this is the problem is there a workaround for this?
Hmm...looks like a permissions issue? Use your FTP client to make sure the UNIX permissions are at least rw-r--r-- (644) or even rwxr-xr-x (755).
Do other admin pages work?
No, changing permissions does not work. That was the first thing I tried.
Other admin pages work just fine (for me); it's only the options that link to options.php that give the 403 error.
One option would be to search here in the forums for mod_security and 403 and options. There was quite a long thread last summer that involved some work-arounds.
I don't have mod_security on. The only way I managed to "fix" the problem was to export my posts from my old install, create a fresh install, and import my old posts (6 years worth - ouch) into it.
It still required a bit of tinkering with the database, so I wouldn't advise that for anyone who isn't 100% sure of what they're doing.
Tresa
