Title: Query for 'system.log' causes 403 error
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Query for 'system.log' causes 403 error

 *  Resolved [vfreriks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vfreriks/)
 * (@vfreriks)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-for-systemlog-causes-403-error/)
 * Hello, a client runs a support site where the search term ‘system.log’ or ‘whatever.
   log’ will be used quite often. When I test relevanssi the search returns a 403.
   I can well imagine this being a security feature but it looks like the URL rewrite
   is messed up?
 * Thank you,
    Victor
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 *  Plugin Author [Mikko Saari](https://wordpress.org/support/users/msaari/)
 * (@msaari)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-for-systemlog-causes-403-error/#post-7568394)
 * Sounds like a security setting on a server level, so you need to ask the hosting
   provider to help with that. Relevanssi won’t do this, Relevanssi will just silently
   replace periods with spaces.
 *  Thread Starter [vfreriks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vfreriks/)
 * (@vfreriks)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-for-systemlog-causes-403-error/#post-7568474)
 * Thanks for pointing that out. I’ve searched around and found a setting in .htaccess
   that prevented requests containing ‘.log’.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/query-for-systemlog-causes-403-error/#post-7568474)
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