SID-00874: "HTML" button on TinyMCE editor throws a "Forbidden" error

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	5.0.0	Perl version:	Perl v5.10.0
Category:	CategoryEditing	Server OS:	Ubuntu 8.10	Last update:	15 years ago

Just completed a TWiki 5 upgrade. When I press "HTML" button in the TinyMCE editor, I get the following error:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /twiki/pub/TWiki/TinyMCEPlugin/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/source_editor.htm on this server.

Any ideas on what I should do? Thank you so much.

-- SomikRaha - 2010-06-24

Discussion and Answer

This is likely an Apache config issue. See related SID-00209.

In Apache directive <Directory "/var/www/twiki/pub"> make sure to exclude .htm from being redefined:

AddType text/plain .shtml .php .php3 .phtml .phtm .pl .py .cgi

I recommend to use the ApacheConfigGenerator.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-24

<Directory "/var/www/twiki5/pub">
    Options None
    AllowOverride None
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
    Deny from env=blockAccess

    # Disable execusion of PHP scripts
    php_admin_flag engine off

    # This line will redefine the mime type for the most common types of scripts
    AddType text/plain .shtml .php .php3 .phtml .phtm .pl .py .cgi
#
#add an Expires header that is sufficiently in the future that the browser does not even ask if its uptodate
# reducing the load on the server significantly
#IF you can, you should enable this - it _will_ improve your twiki experience, even if you set it to under one day.
# you may need to enable expires_module in your main apache config
#LoadModule expires_module libexec/httpd/mod_expires.so
#AddModule mod_expires.c
#<ifmodule mod_expires.c>
#  <filesmatch "\.(jpg|gif|png|css|js)$">
#       ExpiresActive on
#       ExpiresDefault "access plus 11 days"
#   </filesmatch>
#</ifmodule>
#

</Directory>

-- SomikRaha - 2010-06-24

Hmm, not sure. Check your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf if there are any settings that prohibit .htm. Also, check if directory /twiki/pub/TWiki/TinyMCEPlugin/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/themes/advanced/ and parent directories are readable by the Apache user. Same for files within that directory.

-- PeterThoeny - 2010-06-24

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-- PeterThoeny - 2010-08-02

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