Any WordPress Experts?

[geoffkennedy]

I've posted on the Wordpress support forum but as yet had no help with this problem. Was hoping someone in here might have some suggestions.

I've just spent ages writing my first post, adding my links, etc, etc. All the time I noticed the bit at the bottom kept saying it was saving the draft which was quite reasureing. Anyway I finally finished and clicked 'publish'. I was taken to the front page of the blog, minus any posts. I went into the drafts, found the one I had been working on (marked as unpublished) which now consisted of only a title. I controlled myself and started again. After a few lines I clicked the 'save and continue editing' button. For some reason this took me to the front page of my blog again, without saving anything, again. Next I tried doing the same but with the 'save' button. Exactly the same happened! Its hard enough as it is to write articles without having to do them half a dozen times and still be deleted!

I've just noticed that in the 'draft' section it gives the date for this post as "1999-11-30 12:00:00 am" which seems a bit strange too.

Anyone got any ideas whats going on before I hurt my laptop?

Any help appriciated! At present my only solution seems to be to try deleting and reinstalling wordpress!

Any help/suggestions welcome. Please bare in mind this is my first encounter with wordpress, maybe i've missed something obvious!

Geoff

[eUKhost.com]

Hello Geoff,

This is due to mod_security rules on your server. You will need to disable mod_security for your account to sort this problem.

You will need to put following code in your .htaccess file to disable mod_security :-

PHP Code:


<IfModule mod_security.c>

    SecFilterEngine Off

    SecFilterScanPOST Off

</IfModule> 


[geoffkennedy]

Ah! Thanks, it was starting to do my head in!

This might sound like a stupid question......but where will I find the .htaccess file?



Thanks for the help!

Geoff

[geoffkennedy]

Scrap that last question, i've managed to find it.

My other question is, what effect will disabling this have? It's obviously enabled my default for some reason.

Geoff

[sb123]

Hi geoffkennedy ,

If this problem is still not resolved:

With due respect to others who have tried to answer your problem, I think that your Wordpress blog is facing the timestamp problem. There are many ways to check this:

1] First try using the Wordpress.com blog, i.e., start a blog using the wordpress.com and see if you can successfully post from there. This gives us a clue: If you can post from there using your laptop then the problem is definitely in your site's timestamp - solution is to ask your web-host: Forward this querry to your web-hosting service and ask them to look into the timestamp problems if any. This is because WordPress follows the timestamp. (eg, If you try to tamper with timestamp of a post - say put a future date, then the post will be published only when that particular time arrives in future, and not before that time... check this link: en.forums.wordpress.com/topic.php?id=1737&page,
[Incidentally, postdating can be quite interesting, you can automate your "Happy New Year 2008" post to appear exactly at 0:00 hours on January 1, 2008 without being online at that particular moment! The link explains all.]

Same could be the case for pre-dating the post... not very sure here because this is a special case... cannot do that trial to see what happens!

2] Ok, now as we know that current timestamp is important to get your post published successfully and obviously it is not working in your case, because you are mentioning "1999-11-30 12:00:00 am" in your querry. Now, also try saving any text or doc (using WordPad, NotePad, MS Word, etc) and see the time in the Windows Explorer of that file. If that shows the same "1999-11-30 12:00:00 am" then it is a problem of your laptop battery or some other internal malfunction. If it shows the current time, then obviously the problem lies in your WordPress installation /Website Hosting hosting / etc. If every other thing on your uploaded website hosting / blog is fine datewise, then the WordPress installation is problem.

So, please try the above and then only try to change the mod_security settings.

3] To know more about mod_security (it is very critical and important, so know about it before upsetting it), check this link:
modsecurity.org/documentation/modsecurity-apache/1.9.3/html-multipage/

Hope you resolve the problem soon. Please give feedback here, and then invite us all to read your post!

[DPS Computing]

Originally Posted by geoffkennedy

Scrap that last question, i've managed to find it.

My other question is, what effect will disabling this have? It's obviously enabled my default for some reason.

Geoff

Your account is more secure and less suceptible to attack if mod_security is enabled. Unfortunately some scripts such as CMSes or blogs require to do unsafe actions such as writing to files (for posts and news etc) and therefore you get transferred back to your homepage when it can't complete the action.

Joomla has been notorious recently for having problems with mod_sec.

Hope that helps .