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Alec

Anonymous
tired
Hello,

I am running Geeklog on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine. I installed Apache PHP and MySQL using the WebServ project at Sourceforge. So far everything works but one piece.

Whenever I create a story, article, block, etc containing an HTML tag and try to save it, I get an http 403 Access Denied error message.

Checking the Apache Error Log I see the following:
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[Wed Dec 01 14:44:30 2004] [error] [client (my ip address)] mod_security: Access denied with code 403. Pattern match "<(.|\n)+>" at POST_PAYLOAD [hostname "(my hostname)"] [uri "/admin/block.php"]

 


As far as I can tell, Apache is detecting the HTML code in the string input and is blocking it. That's very nice, and seems secure and all.. but how can I turn it off or at least throw some exceptions to the block?

Thanks!
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Alec

Anonymous
cheerful
Ah ha! I found my solution.

Find your httpd.conf file in the conf folder under Apache. Edit it in wordpad and change the following line:

SecFilter ""

to look like this:

SecFilter "
Then restart apache.

Now javascript will still be filtered, but simple HTML will not be filtered. Hope this helps somebody. It sure helped me.
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Alec

Anonymous
Try this...

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SecFilter "<(.|n)+>"

 


should be replaced with

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SecFilter "<( |n)*script"

 
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