403 Forbidden error creating NEW Form or Content Type ONLY on 3.9.0

123 Posts

7 years ago

Topic

After installing 3.9.0 and I try to create a new "Article" Form & Content Type. I get this error

403 Forbidden

Access is forbidden to the requested page:

xxxxx/administrator/index.php?option=com_cck&task=type.add&skeleton_id=10&tpl_a=%3C?php%20echo%20$template_name;%20?%3E&tpl_s=%3C?php%20echo%20$template_name;%20?%3E&tpl_c=%3C?php%20echo%20$template_name;%20?%3E&tpl_i=%3C?php%20echo%20$template_name;%20?%3E (port 80)

Please forward this error screen to xxxxx's WebMaster.

However if I uninstalled this and install the last version 3.8.4 . It works fine and in fact I never had ever experienced this issue before.

I'm using Joomla 3.6.2

PHP Version 5.4.45

4229 Posts

K administrator

7 years ago

Level 1

Hi,

what you are experiencing is probably mod_security or similar protection system catching php echo lines in the url. As a workaround you can ask you host to provide an exemption to their mod_security rules for this.

I will check if this is something that I can reproduce this php echo statements in the url (looks like php opening tag is missing somewhere and since php code is output instead of actual template name)