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#1 2011-11-05 00:24:31
- cangka
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Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
My stupid web host changed something, and now we can’t save articles. It’s VERY strange stuff. if we edit either excerpt or body, when we hit save it simply loads the home page and does NOT edit the article! if I delete my unmodified .htaccess file, i get a 403 error attempting to save. i’ve played with the .htaccess a little bit but have been unable to get it working:
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
Options +FollowSymLinks
#Options -Indexes
#ErrorDocument 403 default
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^(.+) – [PT,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} !^$
RewriteRule .* – [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>
#php_value register_globals 0
dying here! the stock values all worked before. anyone have this problem? ideas? thanks.
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#2 2011-11-05 01:01:49
- cangka
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
Additional information: really weird. I can make text-only edits. i can place break tags <br /> but if i paste an img src tag, and save, i am redirected to the home page with the above .htaccess. what would cause it to treat these differently?
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#3 2011-11-05 01:06:19
- uli
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
If memory doesn’t completeley leave me here, we’ve had some problems with saving here that could be cured with this one.
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#4 2011-11-05 03:37:18
- cangka
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
Thanks, but adding this to the .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>
Didn’t appear to change anything. It still redirects to the homepage instead of saving content if i add an image or do anything other than edit text content.
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#5 2011-11-05 03:41:44
- cangka
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
If it’s helpful in diagnosing the problem, the site is hosted at Webspacehosting.com – the only txp site i’ve ever set up there.
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
Try adding on the top of the htaccess: SecFilterEngine Off and if that doesn’t work add SecFilterScanPOST Off just below it
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#7 2011-11-05 14:35:41
- cangka
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
Getting a 500 error when adding “SecFilterEngine Off” to my .htaccess file, with or without SecFilterScanPOST Off present.
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#8 2011-11-05 14:58:23
- cangka
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
Stupid question: there’s only one .htaccess file I’m concerned with, just in the root directory—right?
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
We are talking about the htaccess which comes with txp
Try only adding SecFilterScanPOST Off and let us know if that returns a 500 or solves the situation
Yiannis
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#10 2011-11-05 17:10:04
- cangka
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
SecFilterScanPOST Off – adding this causes the site to return a 500 error.
with no .htaccess file at all the site and txp backend load, but attempts to save an article with an img src tag added return a 406—not acceptable error.
with the stock textpattern 4.4.1 .htaccess file, which worked before whatever happened here happened, attempts to save an article load the site’s homepage without saving.
I hope this helps with diagnosis. Thank you very much!
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#11 2011-11-05 17:12:14
- cangka
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
Also, if this is helpful, here is my diagnostic check info:
Textpattern version: 4.4.1 (r3575)
Last Update: 2011-11-04 23:36:42/2011-11-04 23:35:58
Document root: /home3/urbanmus/public_html
$path_to_site: /home3/urbanmus/public_html
Textpattern path: /home3/urbanmus/public_html/textpattern
Permanent link mode: messy
open_basedir: /home3/urbanmus:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php:/tmp
Temporary directory path: /tmp
Site URL: urbanmushrooms.com
PHP version: 5.2.17
GD Image Library: version bundled (2.0.34 compatible), supported formats: GIF, JPG, PNG
Server TZ: America/New_York
Server Local Time: 2011-11-05 13:11:35
DST enabled?: 0
Automatically adjust DST setting?: 0
Time Zone: (+68400)
MySQL: 5.0.92-community-log
Locale: en_US.UTF-8
Server: Apache
Apache version: Apache
PHP Server API: apache2handler
RFC 2616 headers:
Server OS: Linux 2.6.18-274.7.1.el5
Active plugins: hak_tinymce-0.9.9
Admin-side theme: classic 4.4.1
.htaccess file contents:
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#DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
#Options +FollowSymLinks
#Options -Indexes
#ErrorDocument 403 default
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On #RewriteBase /relative/web/path/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d RewriteRule ^(.+) – [PT,L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !=/favicon.ico RewriteRule ^(.*) index.php
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} !^$
RewriteRule .* – [E=REMOTE_USER:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
</IfModule>
#php_value register_globals 0
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
Sorry to come up with what might be useless suggestions but what happens if you disable the hak_tinymce plugin?
Yiannis
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#13 2011-11-05 21:33:50
- cangka
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
No change. I’ve tried pasting the raw img src tag into the article with tiny_mce disabled, same results.
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#14 2011-11-06 01:35:45
- els
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
cangka wrote:
Thanks, but adding this to the .htaccess file:
<IfModule mod_security.c> SecFilterScanPOST Off
</IfModule>Didn’t appear to change anything.
It’s supposed to go in an .htaccess file in the /textpattern/ directory.
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Re: Help! likely .htaccess problem, articles can't save
cangka wrote:
I hope this helps with diagnosis.
I would recommend contacting your service provider’s support. Unfortunately there seems to be some sort of security filtering going on that is blocking your requests. And if you have no access to turn those filter off, or loosening the rules, then we can’t really provide any help than suggesting to contact the party that has needed permissions to perform needed tasks.
I would ask if they have have security filters installed and asking whether it is possible that the security filters (like Apache’s ModSecurity) are blocking your legit actions. And then asking if they could turn off or change the filtering rules for you so that you can do your work.
Els wrote:
It’s supposed to go in an .htaccess file in the /textpattern/ directory.
While it could be unwanted to turn security filters off globally, .htaccess files override configuration for sub-directories too. Placing the rules to /textpattern/ directory shouldn’t change the fact that it appeared to do nothing.
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