By publetariat on

I was able to post Stories to my site with a teaser break in them just fine yesterday, but today I'm getting a "Page Not Found" error when I try to "Preview" or "Save" a Story with a teaser break in it. The only way I can post Stories is to leave the teaser breaks out, which makes the teaser content shown on the front page of my site unpredictable.

I haven't made any changes to my install, I'm not aware of any host server changes, and there haven't even been any new Stories posted to the site since yesterday. I'm thinking that the only possible explanation is a server-side change made by my host company, but I don't even know where to start looking, or what questions to ask. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

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cog.rusty commented

This is so bizarre that reminds me of an equally bizarre troubleshooting page:
http://drupal.org/node/110219

Other than that... I was thinking about the "Split summary" button and disabling "Show summary in full view", which should make the teaser field completely independent from the body, so that it wouldn't need a <!--break-->. Unfortunately I see that it still inserts a <!--break--> at the beginning of the body. I don't know if the http://drupal.org/project/excerpt module does this better.

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publetariat commented

Thanks for your reply. I've taken some time to respond to you because two days after I posted my issue here, the next time I tried to create a Story on my site, the teaser problem didn't occur. I decided I'd give it at least a week of regular Story creation (generally, two are created on my site each weekday) before concluding the problem was resolved.

It's been a couple of weeks now, and the problem has not recurred. I haven't made any server-side changes in that time, and neither has my host, so far as I know. It is, as you say, bizarre. ='/

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publetariat commented

Gah!! The problem is back, but it only affected one of the two Stories I posted this evening!

I'm wracking my brain and coming up with nothing. I've looked at the HTML source of both Stories and can find nothing unusual about the one being 'broken' by the teaser. It has a few a href links, but no embedded code, no graphics...nothing but those few links and plain text. And on the front page of my site, that Story (without a teaser break inserted) will only display one line of text as a preview, even though I've set preview length to 800 words in Administer > Post Settings.

This is driving me NUTS!

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cog.rusty commented

Did you check the "Mysterious errors" link?

If you run a phpinfo() (http://drupal.org/node/59680) and you find that mod_security is enabled, maybe you should. It is no joke.