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Hello,

I own the forum www.sonicrainboom.com.br

One night the server went down and after the forum's users started having 403 - Forbidden errors when posting long texts or editings and stuff like that.

I have made some research and found out that it is because of mod_security, so I turned it off using the .htaccess technique. The random errors didn't go away. So I connected with my host and asked them to disable the server's mod_security, which they did, but the error still didn't go away...

It's been a week now that I try to fix this and the server disabled mod_security this very moment, yet I did a test where I tried to edit a long text to add more texts and it still gave me the error "Forbidden 403, you don't have permission to access xmlhttp.php (or editpost.php if complete edit). Funny thing is that I'm admin....

I looked at the CHMOD of these files and it was 644. I changed to 666 and it have error saying everyone had access to it, and 664 just did the same 403 forbidden error.

What's... or better, where is the problem???

Check if the file is set to 0644 CHMOD perms and folders are to 0755, if folders are 0750, it'd throw 403 forbidden error. Also check no part is being blocked in htaccess, check for IP addresses as well.

I checked the folders they were all 0755 and two were 0777. How do I check if something is blocked by htaccess and the IP addresses?

Have you looked in your server error log file to see if it says what's actually causing it...??

(2011-12-06, 06:50 PM)stalk Wrote: [ -> ]It's been a week now that I try to fix this and the server disabled mod_security this very moment, yet I did a test where I tried to edit a long text to add more texts and it still gave me the error "Forbidden 403, you don't have permission to access xmlhttp.php (or editpost.php if complete edit). Funny thing is that I'm admin....

Being an admin has nothing to do with it, it's nothing related to permissions in the forum, it's server file permissions. Some hosts block xmlhttp.php if they think it's getting 'too many' hits, are you on shared hosting??

No. My host is paid (www.redehost.com.br).

About the server's error log... I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but it seems to be empty?

I will contact my host about the error log see if they can show it to me from their side.

Paid hosting can still be shared.

May be empty if it's writing to a log file somewhere else, your host should know where to look.

My host didn't let me see it D: