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1. weareweapons
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   I have a problem that has become very frustrating and I'm hoping one of you kind souls can help me. These problems are occurring on a first-time install on WP 2.9.2 on a new server. I have used WordPress on other sites successfully.

   When creating a new post, I am unable to insert an image. To be specific, when I insert an img src tag or attempt to "insert into post" using the media library, I get a 404 error (the address bar displays "post.php") after clicking either "Publish" or "View Post".

   When I create a post with only text it is displayed as normal without any issues.

   I've searched the codex and other sites and have messed with .htaccess, chmod, deactivating plug-ins (the only one is Akismet), etc. I have also deleted the database and WP and completely reinstalled.

   I'm starting to think this is a host issue, but I have no idea what that issue would be. Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated.

   Thanks

2. Manekinen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi, i got exactly the same problem after upgrade my 2.9 to 2.9.2.

   While upgrade, i did some improvements to .htaccess and installed caching plugin to reduce my monthly bandwidth, so i was thinkig this was a problem.

   I saw this one week later when tried to update one of my posts. I get 404 everytime, like weareweapons says, after clicking publish or view. I can not even change permalink to this post.

   So i tried to make new post and see if it works - yeah, it works fine but until we add image to that post. Empty img src tag causes no problem, but with http:// or full link inside - i get 404. However i can insert images from library, i can upload, etc.

   I downgraded back to 2.9, restored previous copy of database (used with 2.9), restored previous .htaccess, disabled all plugins - still 404.

   I see that i got problems with myphpadmin too, i get wordpress 404 error (with normal url site.com/myphpadmin/index.php...) when try to manually edit records in database, this was working fine before upgrade to 2.9.2

   So if someone resolved this, please help, thanks!

3. Manekinen
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Oh, it seems like this is mod_security problem. It do not allows to post <img src="http://" /> - when i put stupid bold tag into http
   <img src="http<b></b>://..." />
   it saves post but it is useless now...

   apache log after attempt to post:

   [Mon May 24 00:37:20 2010] [error] [client 89.228.***.***] ModSecurity: Rule execution error - PCRE limits exceeded (-8): (null). [hostname "***.***"] [uri "/wp-admin/post.php"] [unique_id "***"]

   And i see there is a lot problems with mod security and wordpress... http://wordpress.org/tags/mod_security

4. James
   Happiness Engineer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Contact your hosting provider and ask them to lift that limitation, it's a little bit overkill.

5. Manekinen
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Yes, this was a mod security problem, administrator has set a high security level after attacks on the server :)

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