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#16446 Request failed: 403

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Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 18 June 2013 04:13 CDT

user67836
Mandatory information about my setup:
System Information
Setting Value

PHP Built On Linux dedi2452.your-server.de 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 SMP Fri May 10 08:43:19 UTC 2013 x86_64
Database Version 5.1.66-0+squeeze1
Database Collation utf8_general_ci
PHP Version 5.4.16
Web Server Apache
WebServer to PHP Interface cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version Joomla! 3.1.1 Stable [ Ember ] 26-April-2013 14:00 GMT
Joomla! Platform Version Joomla Platform 12.2.0 Stable [ Neil Armstrong ] 21-September-2012 00:00 GMT
User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0
PHP version: (5.4, same with 5.3)
downloaded + install newest version of backup and admin tools

Description of my issue:
http://www.demergo.de/administrator/index.php?option=com_templates&view=style&layout=edit&id=14

tab: option
import content from template
->
Request failed: 403

Just try it by yourself, i need the content imported please.
no probs to overright the content

login details:
http://www.demergo.de/administrator/
demergo
AM7dTdCR6ytZjo
ftp:
demergo.de
iiwpdl
661uh54N

Thanks can you figure out what to do?

see attachement for php configuration

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
VERY IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU HAVE ENTERED YOUR PASSWORDS IN A P U B L I C TICKET THAT EVERYONE CAN SEE. CHANGE THEM IMMEDIATELY AND TREAT THEM AS COMPROMISED!

Admin Tools does not run in the back-end of your site and cannot cause this problem. If you don't believe me, let's make sure that the problem is indeed caused by Admin Tools. In order to do so, try the following:

1. Try setting the Error Reporting level in your Global Configuration to "None". Many errors are caused by harmless PHP Notices and Warnings being output to the browser, breaking anything which requires HTTP header manipulation such as Joomla!'s session management, AJAX calls and download systems.

2. Try to replicate the issue after disabling the "System - Admin Tools" plugin. If you can still replicate the issue, it is not caused by Admin Tools. Disabling that plugin means that Admin Tools code (including the Web Application Firewall) is not running on your site.

3. If you suspect an issue with the .htaccess file, replace its contents with the contents of the stock htaccess.txt file shipped with every version of Joomla!. If you are on GoDaddy please wait for 1-30 minutes for the changes to be effective. Then, retry loading the problem page. If you can still reproduce the error, then it is not caused by .htaccess Maker.

If doing any of the above resulted in the issue still occurring, it's not related with Admin Tools and I can't help you. If doing any of the above did stop the issue from occurring, we'll have to do some troubleshooting.

First go to Admin Tools, Web Application Firewall, Configure WAF. Make sure "Log security exceptions" is set to Yes; if it's not, set it to Yes and click on Save. Now try reproducing your issue. Immediately after that, please go to Admin Tools, Web Application Firewall, Security Exceptions Log and go to the last page. The last log entry should have the date and time of when the issue occurred. Please copy the Reason and Target URL here so that I can help you.

If, however, you do not see a log entry, or the Date and/or IP address do not match your last access, this problem is not caused by Admin Tools' WAF. In this case, you will have to do some .htaccess troubleshooting. You may need to read the general .htaccess troubleshooting page, as well as the page on finding out necessary .htaccess exceptions.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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