[pmwiki-users] 500 error on Save or Preview

Ben Stallings ben at interdependentweb.com
Tue Oct 30 09:15:34 CDT 2007


Pm wrote,
>> > Some pages in the site are editable just fine (such as the Sandbox), and 
>> > the others (such as the home page) will let you use the editor without 
>> > complaint, but when you click either Save or Preview, you get this error:
>> > 
>> > ----
>> > Internal Server Error
> 
> I suspect mod_security -- see:
> 
>     http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/Troubleshooting#mod_security

Thanks, Pm!  That was indeed the problem.  However, the tip in the 
troubleshooting page (to turn off SecFilterEngine in .htaccess) caused 
the whole site to go down; the system administrator had to remove what 
he called "an over-zealous rule" to fix the problem.  --Ben



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