403 Forbidden on one subdirectory

  • Hi –

    We just moved our blogs from a MovableType instance to WP Multisite (Yay!) All was going smooth… but now one of the sites is returning a 403 Forbidden when trying to view its landing page.

    Our main page is at: https://blogs.yogajournal.com/

    The error is on https://blogs.yogajournal.com/enlightenedmotherhood/

    Possible cause: Using SQL to update some really ugly MovableType html inside the post_content field. I used an update query to find and replace. It seemed to run fine.

    Weird thing is that all posts under /enlightenedmotherhood/ work fine, for example…
    https://blogs.yogajournal.com/enlightenedmotherhood/2011/11/headstands-and-snowshoes.html

    Information from the modsec_debug.log show errors referencing PCRE limits.

    Is there some way to fix this Forbidden issue in the near term?

    Could load on the system be part of the problem? If so, are there optimizations we can do?

    We are so happy to have moved to WordPress. Would love to get this resolved. Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter greentrain

    (@greentrain)

    Ok. A band-aid has been applied.

    I started to think that this might just have been an error that got stuck in some kind of cache on the server. And while there is still some mystery how all the rewrites create virtual directories on the server, I figured “why not create a physical directory, put an index.html file into it and clear the cache.”

    Well at first it did not want to let create the directory… It thought there already was one. But if I created it locally and uploaded via ftp… it let me “create” the physical directory.

    I hit the new /enlightenedmotherhood/ URL once. I went back and deleted the physical directory. Went back to /enlightenedmotherhood/ and… It worked!!! My WordPress multisite is shining through.

    I am still interested in thoughts on causes and possible optimizations for preventing this from happening again.

    Thanks for your time.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    And while there is still some mystery how all the rewrites create virtual directories on the server, I figured “why not create a physical directory, put an index.html file into it and clear the cache.”

    You can also clear your cache by bouncing http.

    Thread Starter greentrain

    (@greentrain)

    What does “bouncing http” mean? How does one go about doing it?

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