Forbidden 403 Revisited

Posted: Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:46 pm

Ok, here's a headscratcher .. Posted here although could just as well be in FCKeditor.

Regarding the Forbidden 403 error when clicking on "browse server" in the editor.

I had the exact same problem all over again with a new site recently updated to 2.3.0.1 a little while ago.

Has nothing to do with file permissions or ownership, etc.

Only thing left was the .htaccess file in the RN root. Renamed it and was able to browse server. Renamed it back to .htaccess and still could browse server ... Only thing I can think of is something is registering the missing htaccess file somehow. Removing cookies and cache do not alter this behavior.

NOTE: Nope, it is definitely something in the htaccess file that is causing the 403 error, don't know what at the moment.

registered · Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:16 am

Is it doing it with the core .htaccess that is provided?

Just curious, is it everywhere the FCKEditor is used, or only in admin, or possibly in just one of the modules.

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:57 am

It is just the htaccess file that was included in the 2.3.0.1 package. The htaccess from 2.20.10 doesn't interfere. I'll have to compare when I have the time today. Doesn't matter where FCKeditor is used.

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:16 am

Ok... definitely odd. You may have to comment things out in the file and then see which one coming back causes this. Weird.

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 8:29 am

Easier for me to have the problematic htaccess in view and add lines one at a time to the non-problematic file and see which one is the culprit. Either way should provide results.

Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 4:09 pm

The culprit has been discovered. The following entry, when commented out, rectifies the 403 error in FCKEditor, here at least.

Quote:

# Stop Scripts Beforehand
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .*http:\/\/.* [OR]
RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} .*http%3A%2F%2F.*
Rewriterule ^.* - [F]

No clue here, that's up to the expert(s) now. Smile

Cheers

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:20 pm

Well, you're going to have to keep it commented out... that is my "expert" opinion. Laughing

Seriously. The editor must be needing to generate http:// links in order to work. Maybe kguske can shed some light on the subject.

Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2009 5:53 pm

It's commented out, but NS blocks the filters anyway. The htaccess included script just blocks 'em before they get to NS. Now I'm back to getting 60+ filter attempts daily in my email from NS. Smile

Cheers

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 8:31 am

Crap! That's not good. I am not sure what FCKEditor needs to do this for, so not sure how to help you. Have you looked through all various editor configuration files? Not sure if there are any clues there.

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:37 am

The script itself is greek to me much less looking for something in the editor files. Wasn't it "evaders" that provided that script for htaccess? Maybe he could provide a clue as to why they are linked in some fashion.

Cheers