sounds like mod_security
IF YOU DO NOT HAVE an .htaccess in your wp-admin/ directory:
create a text file on your desktop:
put the following inside it:
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</IfModule>
save the file. name it whatever you want
Upload the file to your wp-admin directory.
Rename the uploaded file to .htaccess (with the .)
IF YOU DO HAVE an .htaccess in your wp-admin/ directory:
Edit it, and add the following:
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</IfModule>
save the new .htaccess
see if that helps.
Thanks. I tried that but it makes the entire admin area of the blog inaccessable.
Then you must have done something wrong, sorry.
I had the same/similar issue on a blog I manage and the above code in the htaccess file placed in the wp-admin directory solved it.
I didn’t have an htacess file before. I use a custom template put together by my website programmers. Does that matter?
art4mad,
I have to agree with moshu..
the way thats written above it wont spew an error, even IF mod_security isn’t the problem, since it’s wrapped in the <IfModule ...> tag.
In other words, its only applicable, if its (mod_sec) installed, if its not, it does nothing
I tried it again, and this time it worked fine. I think the problem was I did not save the file as a plain text document, so I suspect it was saved as a rich text document by default. WordPress must not like that.
Thanks very much!!! I greatly appreciate the help!
Nobody likes that!
You should never ever edit any code file (php or html) in a stupid word processor. Only plain text editor!
Uhhh. I just read that the htaccess file might have been there but been invisible to my FTP program (Fetch on a Mac). Did I just overwrite my htaccess file and destroy my permalinks info?
Any .htaccess that existed inside your wp-admin directory did NOT contain anything that WordPress generated.
So no.
You are not reading carefully – that might be one of your problems. We are NOT talking here about the htaccess file at the WP root (the one that helps you with nice permalinks!) – we are talking about a 3-lines file INSIDE the wp-admin directory. Don’t mix things…
