WordPress problems
I finally got this site back to a working state since a few weeks ago, which is why the previous post is dated. After I made the first post, it all of a sudden stopped allowing me to do most things in the WordPress dashboard. I don’t remember changing anything that would have caused this, but this is the error I kept getting:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /ei/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php on this server.
To which I spent lots of time searching for a solution and not finding one that worked. I gave up, and a couple of weeks later, I tried reinstalling WordPress. There were some issues uploading to my server for some reason, but I finally got a fresh install, but with the same problem. Luckily I came across this post on the WordPress site. So I threw this into a file in wp-admin
<IfModule mod_security.c>
SecFilterInheritance Off
</IfModule>
and named it .htaccess like it said. It worked, and I have no idea what was broken or how this fixed it. All I know is that it probably had something to do with a conflict of the permissions on the serve I am using.
This brings up interesting points about community support. This is mostly how I have fixed computer issues since I have had access to the internet. By googling the error, there is bound to be someone else who has come across it and done all the work for me by solving it. It’s great to be able to use the global collective of knowledge to get things done quickly. But is it detracting from my own skilling? Probably, but that’s fine as long as it’s not a priority for me to be skilled in fixing random web app errors.
