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# gab007

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 *   Forum: [Everything else WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/miscellaneous/)
   
   In reply to: [Can’t Publish post](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-publish-post-2/)
 *  [gab007](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gab007/)
 * (@gab007)
 * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-publish-post-2/#post-1406044)
 * I just happened to have this issue yesterday – redirected to 404 when trying 
   to publish my post. I was going ape trying too see why I could not post. If I
   put the post in draft mode (unpublish), my blog was up and running. With the 
   post published it would go straight to 404.
 * I began investigating; a quick search on Google revealed that usually the cause
   for this has to do with .htaccess – so after saving my original version, I’ve
   tried different hacks on the file without any success.
 * Than I’ve looked at the text in the post I was trying to publish. To cut a long
   story short, the problem was that my text contained exactly the words “/etc/passwd”–
   and that was preventing me to publish. I guess that is a security feature (never
   new about it so far) – and I still wonder if that’s implemented by my host or
   by WordPress…if anyone knows please shed some light.
 * Anyway, that was the issue in my case, and I hope that this will give you a starting
   point in tying to see why you cannot post.

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