WordPress Error: Forbidden

By Randy Jensen | Aug 17, 2008

WordPress LogoI was recently working on an article detailing how to install TrueCrypt 5.1a on Ubuntu 8.04. I had just written another article minutes earlier, so I knew everything was fine with WordPress at that time.

This time, however, everytime I chose to Save the article, I was given an error.

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/post.php on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

After deactivating my plugins, changing permissions to post.php and drinking a few beers, I finally found the problem.

For some reason, WordPress didn’t like the character combination of ‘wget h’. In the first step, you need to run the command ‘wget http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads/truecrypt-5.1a-ubuntu-x86.tar.gz” to download the TrueCrypt file.

I was finally able to get around it by adding a non-breaking space ( ) between the ‘wget’ and the ‘h’

Is this a SQL injection safeguard or just a weird bug? Can anyone else replicate it? Anyone?


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  • Not this particular bug, but my customer is getting 403 forbidden whenever he tries to get into his blog, though i can get in fine, using my own login or his. i tried giving him a new user/login but that made no odds, i've explicitly allowed his ip in all the .htaccess files (though i can't find anywhere that it was denied anyway). He's not happy, and i'm completely stuck.
  • Hey frann,

    Wow, that's really weird too. Have you recently upgraded the blog? I would try clearing the cache or try a different browser. Good luck!
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