Title: 403 admin.php forbidden error  when saving Other Options
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# 403 admin.php forbidden error when saving Other Options

 *  Resolved [vzh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vzh/)
 * (@vzh)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-adminphp-forbidden-error-when-saving-other-options/)
 * Hi, I do testing on my local WordPress server and move the edits to the production
   server. As a result, the Fancybox CSS&JS URLs (in NGG Other Options / Lightbox
   effects) are pointing to the local server on the production server, which causes
   slowdowns when browser is trying to find them.
 * When I correct them and hit save, I get a page saying “403 Forbidden – You don’t
   have permission to access /wp-admin/admin.php on this server.”. So the values
   won’t change.
 * So far I’ve tried:
    – setting admin.php permissions to 777 temporarily – adding
   SecFilterEngine off -stuff (found on WP forums) to my root .htaccess file – disabling
   other plugins – disabling and activating NGG
 * Any ideas I could try?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/nextgen-gallery/)
 * Edit: NGG is version 2.0.66.33

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 *  Plugin Contributor [photocrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocrati/)
 * (@photocrati)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-adminphp-forbidden-error-when-saving-other-options/#post-5537946)
 * [@vzh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vzh/) – Have you tried the Reset Option
   under Gallery > Other Options?
 * – Cais.
 *  Thread Starter [vzh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vzh/)
 * (@vzh)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-adminphp-forbidden-error-when-saving-other-options/#post-5537950)
 * Yes, that also results in the same 403 Forbidden page.
 *  Plugin Contributor [photocrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocrati/)
 * (@photocrati)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-adminphp-forbidden-error-when-saving-other-options/#post-5538022)
 * [@vzh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vzh/) – Please send us a Bug Report(
   [http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/report-bug/](http://www.nextgen-gallery.com/report-bug/))
   with your site specifics. You may need our external Reset Tool plugin to try 
   to correct this.
 * Thanks!
 * – Cais.
 *  Thread Starter [vzh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vzh/)
 * (@vzh)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-adminphp-forbidden-error-when-saving-other-options/#post-5538076)
 * Thank you, that solved my problem 🙂
 *  Plugin Contributor [photocrati](https://wordpress.org/support/users/photocrati/)
 * (@photocrati)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/403-adminphp-forbidden-error-when-saving-other-options/#post-5538157)
 * [@vzh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vzh/) – Thanks for the follow-up response!
 * – Cais.

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