By cyc on

Yesterday when I tried to modify and save permissions table (admin/user/permissions), working as user 1 (admin).

When I try to save, I receive Apache 403 error.

This should not happen, I suppose.

Till yesterday everything was ok (however I don't rememer when I lately changed permissions table: maybe a week or two earlier). All other admin pages works OK and all other settings anywhere can be changed and saved.
Also similiar test localhost server with very similiar configuration works ok (however it's on wamp, not gentoo linux, as production server) .

A few questions come to me..

  1. Has anybody seen such behaviour?
  2. Is this error it related to server or drupal (which sends something unexpected to server)?
  3. In what db table permissions are stored? 'permissions' table has only a few lines. Maybe I would try to manually remove all permissions and recreate them manually from admin/user/permissions screen shot (aggggrhh.. approx a ew hundreds of clicks)?

edit:
Before a while I've found I can save permissions table for single role. I'm not a linux guru, but this proves error above seems to be related to apache configuration and very long form submitted. Am I right?

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Comments

dbeall’s picture

dbeall commented

why are you modifying a table?
Permissions can be set in the administer > user management > permissions page
if something is not right..
Goto administer > Content management > Post settings to rebuild permissions

cyc’s picture

cyc commented

as I wrote, this is related to user 1 (admin) which by default have all rights to everything without setting any permissions anywhere.

(I was just wondering if this can be related with any permission setting bug)

dbeall’s picture

dbeall commented

That is default.. Maybe create a user and then set permissions for authenticated

cyc’s picture

cyc commented

this makes no sense.
The issue is: I cannot save permissions for all roles, only for specific role. All as user 1, which is superuser (yeah, I know that;-)

dbeall’s picture

dbeall commented

I guess I didn't understand the question..

aegagros’s picture

aegagros commented

sorry to jump in an old thread like that, but I have the same problem...

when I try to save the permissions for all roles I get an access Forbidden (with clean urls turned on)
If i turn clean urls off, i get a apache test page

when I save the permissions for a single role, i can save normally.... funny

oh, I get the exact same thing when I try to save the settings for the webform module

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gbrands commented

For anyone who stumbles on this from searching -
It seems a few users have this issue and different things solve it for different people.
Here are a few links to what others have tried with some success:

http://drupal.org/node/1010372
http://drupal.org/node/299437#comment-3168142

Hope it helps!

-= Gerrit Brands

Glenmoore’s picture

Glenmoore commented

I could not update my permissions page (white screen, no error log, nothing).

Turns out I needed to increase the number of variables I could input, using the line "max_input_vars = 1000" in my php.ini file. Seems I had 5 user roles X over 200 permissions (ie >1000). I simply changed the limit to 2000.

Hopefully, this will help someone.