I don't know why this is happening, but on certain pages in my Wiki (which is up-to-date with ver. 1.6), whenever someone tries to add a page or edit them, they get a 403: Access Denied error. I have gotten this error when logged in from 2 different computers, and logged in (on both computers) with both a normal account and a SysOp account; another user has just emailed me saying she got the same error when she tries to preview or save the page in question. I have now gotten this with 3 different pages on my Wiki, while other pages can be created and edited just fine. I have tried deleting the pages and starting over, but it doesn't help.
I've browsed through tons of Media Wiki documentation and other FAQs, including the archives of this ML, but nothing I find on Access Denied errors helps or applies to my situation.
Can anyone assist me? Thanks, ~Azurite
Azurite wrote:
I don't know why this is happening, but on certain pages in my Wiki (which is up-to-date with ver. 1.6), whenever someone tries to add a page or edit them, they get a 403: Access Denied error.
This is probably because of a badly configured "security" module on the web server such as mod_security. (In particular if the page title or contents contains Unix shell commands, etc.)
Contact your system administrator and ask about this.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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