By bradrice on

I seem to be running into a character limit on my blog post. I've typed my post into a text editor then pasted in. I get the forbidden 403 message. If I only paste a few paragraphs in, it works. The more I past in, I eventually hit the wall and the I get the forbidden message. My post is not that long, really. Maybe 5 paragraphs. Is there a setting that allows me to increase the character limit on blog posts? I couldn't seem to locate it in the interface. I tried both story and blog as options to post, but they both seem to hit the wall.

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vm commented

could be an apache module called mod_security enabled on your server that would drop the post if it finds a certain word or sentence that looks like it may be a malicious script. Inspect your hosts settings to see if mod_security is indeed enabled.

If mod_security is indeed enabled. To find what word or sentence may be tripping the mod_security rules set up , you would have to keep pasting til you can narrow down the specific word or sentence that is tripping this module in apache.

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bradrice commented

Thanks, you were right. The wierd thing was that if I broke the article in two and pasted it into two separate blog entries, it would post. That's why I thought it was a character limit. What is a good way to leave mod_security enabled, but add filtering to it without stopping you from posting? Anybody?

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vm commented

you'll have to check out the documentation on mod_secuirty on its website with regards to rules. see: http://www.modsecurity.org/
I personally find the mod to be far more trouble than its worth.