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I’m getting a 404 permissions error when trying to Post. I’ve narrowed it down to using the word “Cat” within a form field. When using “Cat” only, no error. If I use “Cat Face” for example, I get the error. Any time I have additional text after “Cat”, I get the error.

Any ideas?

rumsey, what is the exact error? 404 is a not found, not a permissions error.  Are you getting a 403?

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /ee/index.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

It is a 403, sorry. I was confused by the extra 404 error in the statement.

I would guess that it is a mod_security error.  Can you go to Admin -> Utilities -> PHP Info and look for mod_security and let us know what you find?

mod_security is listed as a loaded module, but that’s the only mention of it in PHP Info. Should I be looking at something specific?

rumsey, you do have mod_security turned on.

What you can do is to place the following in your .htaccess file if you have one already, or create one with:

<IfModule mod_security.c>
      SecFilterEngine Off
</IfModule>

I have to do that on many of my sites.

Worked like a charm.

Thanks Sue!

Glad to hear things are working for you again. Please don’t hesitate to post again if needed.