Can't seem to save .php or .js files, .css work

We are seeing some odd behavior and was hoping someone could help us understand what is going on.

We have the plugin installed and editing .css files with no issues. But when we edit .php or .js files, it hangs on “Saving…” and in Firebug we can see that a POST is made to admin-ajax.php which generates a 403 Forbidden error. It’s specifically for the file admin-ajax.php.

We can not see that error get logged to the web server which seems odd (if we cause any other error, like a 404, we see it logged immediately, and there are old 403 errors in our logs so we do capture them, it’s just apache).

Can you help us understand what might be going on? The location and files should have enough permissions – in fact we have another clone of this site with the exact same apache configs and filesystem permissions and it works there.

If we edit the files that fail in WPide in a shell editor like “vi”, we can then see the changes in WPide. But for some reason, we can not use WPide to make changes to those files.

Thanks!

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