Do you want to help us debug the posting issues ?

[giga+bytes]

@bapoumba: Will do!

Also: I tried starting the same thread I have been trying to start for days, and instead of immediately giving me that same error message, my mouse pointer spun for a few seconds then I got a screen saying the server timed out. After trying again with the same result, I tried once more but this time did not select "subscribe to thread", and it finally worked! I then successfully posted in my new thread, so things are improving for me.

[sudodus]

First attempt at

$ date -u
tis 26 jul 2016 23:45:10 UTC

repeated attempts to edit failed with the same output:

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /editpost.php on this server.
Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at ubuntuforums.org Port 443

Post:

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....6#post13522996

[sudodus]

Later on

$ date -u
ons 27 jul 2016 00:09:09 UTC

I tried again to edit the same post (but without trying to write anything in the box to explain why and what I edited. And this time it was successful.

[randell6564-gmail]

Hey guys can't post. keep getting Apache error "YOU DON'T HAVE PERMISSION TO ACCESS THIS FOLDER" every time I click submit thread.

[mc4man]

Wed Jul 27 04:22:04 UTC 2016
13523066
forbidden...

edit: could do as a quick reply though am now forbidden from editing that reply.

[bapoumba]

@sudodus : at least I could move your post here (could not the other day).

@all : Please give date -u output when reporting posting issues so that the sysadmins know where to look in their logs, thanks.

[marshal-devilhunter]

Hi !
When I wanna make a new topic and after I click "Submit Reply" it says : You cannot have access to newthread.php on this server (Error 403) !

Why the Hell ? Are we banned from posting on Ubuntu forums also ?

[Ghjnut]

Here's the url to the thread https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....8#post13523128
The post was a reply.

I can still reproduce, here's a gist to the exact source: https://gist.github.com/Ghjnut/2544c...72430507d70756
If you paste it in and try to click 'Preview Post' it will fail out (I just tried it here).

Here's the code block that causes it to fail: https://gist.github.com/Ghjnut/2544c...-log-L442-L763
but for some reason if I paste only that block as a separate post, it functions.

If I pull this section of the code block out, it works: https://gist.github.com/Ghjnut/2544c...-log-L581-L762
so I'm guessing it's something in there.

[anewbie]

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /newthread.php on this server.

Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu) Server at ubuntuforums.org Port 443
--
Can't create new thread in general getting above error.

[anewbie]

Is there a reason I am getting forbidden ? The bottom of the page say I have permission to post new thread and others are starting new threads. Also I am using chrome browers on ubuntu 16.04 if that matters.


Weird; I was able to work around the issue by creating a very simple topic with single word topic and single word body. I could then edit hte post and fill in the details of the problem. I wonder if there is some sort of filter that is making false positives when examining posts ?