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#41484 change configuration message Not Acceptable

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Environment Information

WordPress version
6.7.1
PHP version
8.1
Akeeba Backup version
8.3.0

Latest post by damnsharp on Tuesday, 14 January 2025 07:35 CST

damnsharp

Good morning team,

Suddenly on several sites on the same hosting company the configuration of the back-up location is now [DEFAULT_OUTPUT] instead of [SITEROOT]backups

When I try to change the configuration I get message

"Not Acceptable
An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on this server."

What could be the cause of this change?

Thank you.

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

I suspect that your host made a configuration change on their servers which causes them to throw this error when you submit the configuration form. You need to contact your host about that.

My crystal ball says that they do not like the fact that our configuration form sends a POST request with a JSON document instead of a typical www-url-encoded format. We have to do that because we have approximately 110 configuration parameters on the configuration form, whereas a lot of other hosts put a hard limit on 100 parameters in a form. If I am guessing the problem right (remember, I am consulting my “crystal ball”, i.e. my experience on unintended consequences of well-meaning changes made by systems administrators over the last 20-odd years) your host should be able to add an exemption for our configuration form; the URL path where the form is POSTed is always the same, and there are two distinct parameters (page and view) they can use to create a very specific exemption with their configuration.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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damnsharp

Hi Nicholas, thank you for the reply. I will ask my host if they can change something.

 

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