Hi,
Just a follow up. Edit some more, click “Save and Continue Editing” and WordPress dies with the 403 Forbidden error. I press the back button on my browser and click the “Save” button and it saves fine. I haven’t tried clicking “Publish” yet though.
Signed, befuddled by it all.
Jim,http://www.artsnova.com/blog/
What’s probably more interesting is what’s in the post you’re working on. I’d say it sounds like your host is running mod_security on the server and it doesn’t like something you’re writing. Or some words, at any rate.
The word “curl” is a typical crowd-pleaser.
Anyways, you might check with your host and see if that’s indeed the case. If it is, some searching here will turn up a clever .htaccess trick that may disable it for specific directories.
So is my hosting company, Lunarpages, retarded?
I have narrowed it down to the following phrase:
The idea for producing such a presentation came to me while watching some videos people had created using the Galaxy Song from the Monty Python movie “The Meaning of Life.”
So what is there in the above that Lunarpage considers to be so dangerous? I haven’t been able to really narrow it down any further because I can enter separate parts of the above sentence and have it accepted. But when I enter the entire sentence or something close to it, it dies on me. I did email Lunarpages and they suggested that I add an htaccess file with the following settings:
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
I sent back an email asking them the significance of these parameters and what happens by adding them and turning them off. No word back yet.
Jim, http://www.artsnova.com/blog/
SecFilterEngine Off
SecFilterScanPOST Off
Disables mod_security.
Thanks whoeveryouare. It looks like the killer is putting the word “movie” after the word “life.” I am of course totally at a loss to figure out the hidden danger of having these two words appear together. Looks like I need to learn more about mod_security.
Thanks. Jim
Hello,
Just a follow up. The problem was because of mod_security installed on the Apache server. Rather than inserting parms into .htaccess to turn mod_security off, I fiddled with my message until it passed through security. Note that it wasn’t any of the individual words that I was using that caused the problem but rather a few particular sequences of words.
For example – Life” movie.
gets blocked. Go figure.
Jim, http://www.artsnova.com/blog/
