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Host messed up permissions? Can't post via flock or ecto. (7 posts)

  1. toopicky
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    My webhost messed something up.
    I used to be abel to use ecto just fine then i started to get errors left and right.
    Last time this happend they changed some MOD permissions.. I have no idea wht it could be.

    This time when it got slow and gave errors ( it did post it after 10 minutes), i asked them to take a look at the MOD again... Now i can't post at all.

    Here is what I get:

    Request with URL:
    http://toopicky.com/wp/xmlrpc.php
    and data:
    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <methodCall>
    <methodName>mt.getRecentPostTitles</methodName>
    <params>
    <param>
    <value><string>1</string></value>
    </param>
    <param>
    <value><string>toopicky</string></value>
    </param>
    <param>
    <value><string>******</string></value>
    </param>
    <param>
    <value><i4>20</i4></value>
    </param>
    </params>
    </methodCall>

    Response:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
    <HTML><HEAD>
    <TITLE>403 Forbidden</TITLE>
    </HEAD><BODY>
    <H1>Forbidden</H1>
    You don't have permission to access /wp/xmlrpc.php
    on this server.<P>
    <P>Additionally, a 404 Not Found
    error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
    <HR>
    <ADDRESS>Apache/1.3.36 Server at http://www.toopicky.com Port 80</ADDRESS>
    </BODY></HTML>

    Now I suspect this really has nothing to do with ecto but I would like to tap into your knowledge so I can tell my host (hostdime) what to change and how to fix it.

    Thank you,
    M

  2. Chris_K
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Right. 403 forbidden would have me wondering what permissions are on that xmlrpc.php file.

  3. toopicky
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I have tryed 777, 755, 744, 666 and 644.

    Makes no difference whatsoever :(

  4. Chris_K
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Does this happen for anything you email in? In other words, have you tried a very simple "test" message?

    I wonder if you're running afoul of mod_security rules.

  5. toopicky
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    I use Ecto to post messages... and now when posting thru the webinterface it works but after hitting the submit it just sits there trying to load the page.

  6. toopicky
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Oh.. and if i hit that file directly i get the correct response.. meaning the xmlrpc.php.

  7. macbrink
    Member
    Posted 5 years ago #

    Hey,
    I have had the same problem. It was solved by adding some lines to the .htaccess file:

    <Files xmlrpc.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

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