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SMF Support => SMF 2.0.x Support => Topic started by: Burpee on August 13, 2010, 09:49:53 AM

Title: Internal Server Error when adding a specific description to a board
Post by: Burpee on August 13, 2010, 09:49:53 AM
I found some very interesting behavior.

When adding a description to my Recycle bin, I wanted to give the following:
QuoteOnly admins are able to delete posts from the recycle bin.

However, I receive the following error message in response to this:
QuoteInternal Server Error

The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.
Please contact the server administrator to inform of the time the error occurred and of anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.






The solution to this problem, is to remove the text "delete posts" from the description. Now I can imagine that this might be something which has been put in place to avoid MySQL injections, but I see two problems with that:


I've been hearing reports of such error messages popping up on  other pages as well, but so far I haven't been able to find a good explanation for it. It might be the hosting company, as I have not selected this myself and I am unaware of their configuration. Could anybody perhaps shed some light on what might be the problem here?
Title: Re: Internal Server Error when adding a specific description to a board
Post by: kat on August 13, 2010, 09:55:52 AM
Might this be the server's "Mod security" thing, over-reacting? (As usual)