Please help… I’m getting desparate!

key and jenn: I just got up and checked this thread first. I just wanted to say: wheee.

Thanks to handysolo and you two for your patience ;’)

EDIT: I’d still forward a note to your tech-support about updating their mod_security rules. Their current mod_security rules will break things for their other customers too.

whoami: Take another look at the .htaccess rule listed, it is specific to (only) the options.php file. Your suggestion would disable mod_security for every file under wp-admin/.

you are correct and I apologize for mis-reading your post. You replied with a workable solution to the original problem in this thread.

That said, and I state this as well in the other thread, if mod_security is getting in the way of updating options, its going to get in the way of other things — consequently I reccommend disabling it all-together for ONLY the wp-admin dir.

One could, of course, disable it for single pages as they see problems, but then, most people arent that patient.

just wanted to say thank you! I had the same problem an fixed after following your instructions. Thank you

I want to thank Yosemite as well, for the code! I was experiencing the same problems when installing CuteNews, and was getting extremely impatient with the lack of help assisted in their forums so I ended up switching to WordPress. Then, I experienced the same problems from WordPress but luckily, I was able to find this thread! Many other people I know were experiencing the same errors and were getting as fustrated so I helped them out (crediting you obviously!) so you’ve really helped a lot of us!! Thanks a lot! You are a genius!

Btw, I am under Netrillium too.

Same here!

1/ The reading options were not working…

2/ After MANY test like a user above in this thread, I found the exact word “union”, in any post, would also lead to the same error…

These MOD_SECURITY issues were solved by putting an .htaccess file in /wp-admin using the following code:

<Files options.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

<Files post.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

Thank you guys ??

Welcome! But without HandySolo, key and jennsoer I doubt the solution would have ever floated up.

Hello everyone, i can’t begin to tell you how much thankful i am, i have read EVERY SINGLE thread in this support forum and i was starting to think it was impossible to solve. I just instaled WP yesterday since i got tired of being a blogspot person always learning the hard way. So i got hosting, domain, latest WP, importing my beta blogger posts (hours and hours and hours of not-fun), so when i was checking my settings for options/reading the same thing over-explained here happened.

So i’ve been literally for hours trying to solve the thing and voila !!! so thank you very very very much hahahahaha. I had it figured out by the <Files options-reading.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files> mistake, i tried the options.php way and had it work. Then i come back here and try to post you guys on the solution, kept reading and saw you came to it by yourselves. Anyways, i wouldnt have been able to do it if it wasnt for the last 2 topic pages….

Hugs and millions of thanks from Mexico City ??

F.

Thank you guys. I had the same problem with updating my General Options and Read Options in WordPress version 2.1. After uploading .htaccess with

<Files options.php>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</Files>

the problem was solved.
Thank you very much.