mazunga

I see that now. I will have to ask the host for help

Without seeing the log (host away, weekend), I was looking at this page
https://www.litespeedtech.com/support/wiki/doku.php/litespeed_wiki:config:understanding_403

It mentions that the presence of a rewriterule can cause a 403. I do have such a rule:

### marker CACHE RESOURCE start ###
RewriteRule cms/wp-content/.*/[^/]*(responsive|css|js|dynamic|loader|fonts)\.php - [E=cache-control:max-age=3600]
### marker CACHE RESOURCE end ###

I do not have access to the server’s log. I will have to ask the host.

I was able to edit the .htaccess file from the “Tools” tab to insert “Options +FollowSymLinks” at the top, and successfully saved it. However, when I tried to edit the path again, the 403 error happened again.

Disabled ModSecurity, but I still get 403 error.

Could this be the reason:
https://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/403-forbidden-error-wordpress-htaccess/

When I try to save the new paths I get error

403
Forbidden
Access to this resource on the server is denied!

I will test and update, thank you.

I received a copy of your unedited post, qtwrk, in which you showed a variety of scenarios:

View post on imgur.com

But it looks like you have not quite understood, because in each case you have the backend and frontends in the same folder.

What typically happens is that there will be one htaccess in the wordpress subfolder, and another one in the root folder (public_html)

So:
home/example/public_html/.htaccess
home/example/public_html/wordpress/.htaccess

The error, which is still occurring with the latest release of your plugin, is that it only updates the htaccess in the wordpress folder. It cannot work out, by itself, to update the root htaccess.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 7 months ago by mazunga.

No, I have not. I will investigate and report back.

Update: does not work properly, period. I spent hours manually removing all the images I did not want from my site via FTP, then deleted all references to all images in wp_posts and wp_postmeta, then ran this plugin, and it created multiple versions of all files, even though I have WP set to NOT do this!

So utterly pointless and has wasted hours of my time!

• This reply was modified 4 years, 10 months ago by mazunga.

Fixed. General Settings –> Reset Configuration

This should be in the free version too. The lack of refresh means bots can push through it

Ignore the first comment, but what’s to stop a bot reading the page’s html and finding:

<span id="wpcf7-5c53b321de0c9" class="wpcf7-form-control-wrap contact-123-wrap" style="display:none !important; visibility:hidden !important;"><input class="wpcf7-form-control wpcf7-text" type="text" name="contact-123" value="" size="40" tabindex="-1" autocomplete="nope" /></span>

There are some giveaways in there, not so?
display:none?
visibilty:hidden?

How smart does a bot have to be to ignore that?

• This reply was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by mazunga.

Now using WPForms with honeypots and V2. Spam stopped. Deleted CF7.

I’m using W3 Cache, so no, the problem has gone away.

Sorry don’t have time, have installed another cache plug-in. My problem may be rare, or not, don’t know. If others have the same problem, they can comment here.