Strange new error “appropriate representation”?

  • I’ve been using WordPress for a good while and its all been working wonderfully.
    Tonight though, if I try to post something I get this error message:
    “An appropriate representation of the requested resource /wp-admin/post.php could not be found on this server.”
    An error 406, which I’m not familiar with.
    My ISP just upgraded PHP to 4.3.4 and Apache to 1.3.29. I’m assuming that broke something, but can anyone suggest a way to fix things?

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  • I’m seeing the same thing.

    I’m seeing the same thing. It worked fine yesterday, today it’s gone. My site is hosted by domain-zone.com.

    Thread Starter iampetesmith

    (@iampetesmith)

    OK, from doing some testing, the problem seems to have something to do with html tags in posts. If I strip out all tags it works — clearly not a viable solution for a blog.
    Anyone have any ideas? FWIW I’m with oneworldhosting.com

    My problem seems to have disappeared. I would like to know where it came from and what to do next time.

    Thread Starter iampetesmith

    (@iampetesmith)

    Whoa. I just went and tested and mine is working now, too.
    That’s too bizarre…

    your hosting co went back to its old version of apache & php

    Actually your host fixed some problems with the new PHP upgrade having to do with the location of libraries. Sorry for the inconvenience – it caught us by surprise too! -your host

    I was getting this exact error, but tracking it down, it was using the word .htaccess that was causing the problem, removing the leading . solved it.
    I’m using 1.3 alpha 4

    Sorry to bring a thread back from the dead, but I’ve been experiencing this trouble, too. My host and I have been working on this for two days so far, but we haven’t been able to solve it, except to strip most–if not all–of the HTML tags… which iampetesmith said, isn’t a viable solution for a blog.

    Here’s a stupid question: could WordPress one day be able to work around this, or is this entirely a server thing?

    In my case, it turned out to be a problem with the mod_security rules, which I have no control over. Based on some feedback on my provider’s support forum, I added this line to my .htaccess file to disable mod_security.

    SecFilterEngine off

    some additional info: <https://kb.textdrive.com/article/disabling-mod_security&gt;

    Which appears to have solved my problem, but I am not sure which mod_security filter I ws triggering. Now I am investigating selectively disabling mod_security for my host only while I dig through my server logs for clues.

    I’m getting the same error now.

    My host says:

    “Access denied with code 406. Pattern match “\\$_GET” at
    POST_PAYLOAD”

    \\$_GET is blocked due to it’s use in a recent phpBB worm. Due you know why
    that string would be in the post content?

    I’m using default Kubrick and I get the error when trying to edit the theme. Seems sidebar.php contains $_GET

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