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What Causes Error 406?

Calvin Michel Sidjaja on February 15th, 2008

Since I moved my domain into 000webhost, I’ve been having this problem. Whenever I finished editing my posts, wordpress will give this horrifying message:

An appropriate representation of the requested resource /wp-admin/post.php could not be found on this server

I have read some help and fixes in internet, (this one is neat). Apparantly this happened because my webhost turning on ModSecurity-whatever-software which eventuallly causes this problem. All tutorials you find in internet and wordpress.org will usually give the same hints: add “SecFilterEngine off” to your .htaccess on wordpress root.

I have tried it several times,but still, instead of being fixed, now I’m getting 500 internal server error. Luckily I have my .htaccess backup so I could always restore the original file. (hint: backup your .htaccess first!)

I have tried to contact 000webhost to turn off that mod_security thingie on my blog, I hope the problem will be fixed an hours later. Anyway, have anyone encountered this before? Is there any alternative way to solve this problem?

EDIT: Apparantly, this post (yeah, the one you read right now) is editable. But this post is not, maybe because it uses a lot of Kanji?

EDIT: As stupid as it sounds, this all happens because 000webhost banned the keywords of r4pidshare and m3gaupload to be written in any pages or posts! The solution is, just use tinyurl if you need to use any of them, or cloak it by using numeric characters. Oh geez, Maybe I will consider to move from this host if they have more banned words.

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2 Responses to “What Causes Error 406?”

  1. RobertoJune 30th, 2008 at 11:56 pm

    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 3.0 on Windows Windows XP

    How i can edit post that was baned for use words like
    r4pidshare and m3gaupload. I need to edit the links with tyniurl, but I can’t.

  2. Calvin Michel SidjajaJuly 1st, 2008 at 4:13 pm

    Using Mozilla Firefox Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.6 on Ubuntu Linux Ubuntu Linux

    @roberto
    I suggest you to use desktop blogging software such as scribefire or livejournal client, oddly, we could edit these posts when using external editor.

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