[wp-testers] Unable to Upload

Rick Beckman rick.beckman at gmail.com
Wed Mar 26 20:59:35 GMT 2008


Andy: I have mod_security enabled on my server, and uploading works fine for
me. DreamHost, for the record.

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Rick

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Skelton <skeltoac at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Brent Logan <gbrentlogan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm not using bad behavior, never have. I got the 403 error even with no
> >  plugins activated. Apparently, this is a host configuration issue. I
> >  searched "flash upload 403" and found that putting the following lines
> in my
> >  .htaccess file fixes the problem.
> >
> >  SecFilterEngine Off
> >  SecFilterScanPOST Off
>
> If this were conditional and specifically directed at the flash upload
> target file it could be a very nice thing to add to .htaccess where we
> can. Here is a first attempt:
>
> <IfModule mod_security.c>
> SecFilterSelective "REQUEST_URI" "wp-admin/async-upload.php" "allow,nolog"
> </IfModule>
>
> Anyone on Apache experiencing HTTP upload errors not resolved by
> removing plugins, please add that to your .htaccess file and report
> the results here.
>
> Andy
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