forbidden error messages – mod_security

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    Last couple of days, I was frustrated by 403 error messages that wouldn’t let me search/post/edit/view posts after doing a search with the words “home companion.”

    I tried the suggested solution

    <IfModule mod_security.c>
    SecFilterEngine Off
    </IfModule>

    in the wp-admin folder .htaccess file, added

    SecFilterInheritance Off
    SecFilterScanPOST Off

    but nothing worked.

    Finally, going through my other .htaccess files, I saw that I had the following command:

    SetEnvIfNoCase Referer home.com spammer=yes

    I deleted that line, and voila, “home companion” was no longer a problem.

    What I can’t understand is why the string “home.com” would affect my WordPress searches for “home companion.”

    Also, non-Wordpress html pages on the site remained unaffected by this search string problem. I could access them whenever I wanted.

    Just thought I’d share.

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