You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/options.php

  • When trying to change the “reading” options under settings I get the error, “You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/options.php on this server.” I have tried adding a .htaccess file like suggested in another related forum post and the blog admin functions shut down entirely.

    I am able to change the “writing” options under “settings” without getting any errors.

    I have tried changing permissions on the wp-admin folder and changing permissions on the options.php file itself to no avail.

    I am stuck….your help is greatly appreciated.

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  • Did I mention that this problem has persisted since January of last year & several versions ago!

    As utterly bizarre as this may sound, I’ve experienced this problem when I had the phrase “selected from” in my page.

    I discovered this by literally copying each individual paragraph into the page, and then saving and testing. Immediately after copying the paragraph containing “selected from”, I got the error.

    I then went to copying each individual word, and every time I pasted (or typed) the word “from” after selected, it would error.

    As soon as I changed the text to “chosen from”, it allowed me to save again.

    Weird, huh?

    This is what my .htaccess looks like Originally

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /journal/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /journal/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress

    I changed it to

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

    Same Problem

    I changed it to

    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    SecFilterEngine Off
    SecFilterScanPOST Off
    RewriteBase /journal/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /journal/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress

    Same problem. Still unable to make any changes to my Settings Area.

    Have you checked your theme folders? That is what caused my problem.

    same problem also with adding on .htaccess!!!!

    You may also get this symptom from a bad symlink in which case none of the other fixes can help.

    The changing of .htaccess worked for me, thank you so much I have been searching for hours!
    Does anyone know just how dangerous it is to leave the “filterengine” and “filtersacnPOST” commands turned off?

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