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My board is of phpBB 3.0.11

Sometime (but not ALL the time) when I update an existing BBCode via APC --> Posting, say updating its 'HTML replacement' code, the update gets rejected with a "403 Forbidden" server error (an error from hosting company I believe)

My question is, when such a BBCode is updated, is it an update to some database table record(s) ONLY? Or does it also update some file say under (phpbb_root)/whatever directory (if yes, what files under which direcotry)? I guess I am trying to find out if some file directory and/or files do not have correct access mode say 755?

Thanks!

It's likely to be your hosts mod_security being tripped. Just ask them to white-list whatever is being blocked at that moment.

BBcodes are all in the database.

KevC wrote:It's likely to be your hosts mod_security being tripped. Just ask them to white-list whatever is being blocked at that moment.

BBcodes are all in the database.

Thanks. I did contact my webhosting company about this issue. I was told to offer my board admin user name and password so that some technical support person could try the same, and monitor what is blocked, etc. I was not feeling easy though to give out my password...

Change your password to something so they can test and then change it back to the one you usually use.

Or make a new admin account with limited access only to the permission for being able to make BBcodes.

permissions
administrators
edit permissions
posting tab
Can define BBCode tags

KevC wrote:Change your password to something so they can test and then change it back to the one you usually use.

Or make a new admin account with limited access only to the permission for being able to make BBcodes.

permissions
administrators
edit permissions
posting tab
Can define BBCode tags

Thank you! I will try this, then.

webhosting guy tried adjusting mod_security settings a number of times, but still gets the same error. so now I am asking the guy to disable mod_security altogether for my domain. I will see...

Update: I finally got webhosting company to disable mod_security for me, and problem solved.

Thanks!