I’ve been using the BBvideo plugin for a couple years now, haven’t changed anything in my site recently, though i did do some work in the site route (not the bbpress folder.)

this morning a user told me that when they try’d to post a vid, they got the following error.

Forbidden

You don’t have permission to access /discuss/bb-post.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

even if i’m logged in as admin, i still get the forbidden.

2 things. all the vids previously uploaded, still show up (IE, the link, gets converted to an embed vid.) so the plugin seems to be working… and if i disable it, but still paste in a link to say http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYsTV2C9zaM, even though the plugin is disabled, it still spits back a forbidden error. Yet, if i just write in random text, without a link reference… it posts fine.

Completely baffled.

Thoughts?

[@circuit Member 15 years ago]

I have just posted about this. Exactly the same thing. Sudden error, no change, users getting 404s when posting links. I also use that plugin but I hear this is happening when posting all links. I can’t really check it right now as I’m away from home.

Please let me know if you have any ideas, this is really really bad news.

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/suddenly-getting-404-errors-on-bb-postphp-bb-editphp

[@chrishajer Participant 15 years ago]

Are you guys with the same hosting company? Maybe they locked down the security or something. I heard about Media Temple doing this last week (mod_security or something.)

[@circuit Member 15 years ago]

I’m with Hostgator..? I’ll email them. Thanks for the tip.

[@circuit Member 15 years ago]

yep they said it’s mod_sec. I’ll report back when I’ve retested it.

[@tanmccuin Member 15 years ago]

I’m also with HostGator – i guess that explains it. Now to see what can be done about it.

[@circuit Member 15 years ago]

Solved as promised. Hostgator are good! (And quick!)

[@tanmccuin Member 15 years ago]

yep – everything’s fine now.