File this one under "I must be losing my mind."
Believe it or not, I am not making this up.
I just upgraded one of my Carts from 1.2.6 to 1.3.6. So far so good.
But when I tried creating EZ-pages, life got very weird.
I created several EZ-pages successfully, as one would expect.
But when I tried creating a page with the following in the HTML Content textarea, I was forbidden access to admin/ezpages.php on the remote server ...
"Ritual" is a term we use to describe the practice of stepping into the threshold or liminal space, and working in that space to effect chosen changes in ourselves and in our lives. In liminal space, an individual is consciously aware not only of material reality, but of emotional, mental and spiritual realities as well. Thus, in ritual, one is able to voluntarily transform oneself on several levels simultaneously.
The specific error was "Forbidden / You don't have permission to access /catalog/admin/ezpages.php on this server."
I thought maybe a security mod had malfunctioned, so I backed out and tried again. Same deal.
I tried creating another EZ-page with a different block of text, and it went through just fine. So I tried yet again with the initially-forbidden text (above), and again -- same forbidden error.
My head started to hurt, but I had to find out why EZ-pages accepted everything I fed it but this one paragraph. I experimented for about an hour, and to make a long story even longer, I learned that when I omitted or misspelled the word "describe" (e.g. "dsecribe"), EZ-pages passed the form. But whenever I tried putting the correct spelling back in, I was forbidden.
By now I was starting to consider a career change, yet I couldn't give up after coming this far. I tried moving the correctly-spelled word "describe" to different places in the paragraph, and amazingly, it made a difference.
No kidding. If "describe" appeared too early in the paragraph, Forbidden. Far enough from the beginning, accepted. I repeated this little experiment several times, and the results were consistent.
To wit:
"Ritual" is a term we use to the practicedescribe of stepping into the threshold or liminal space
is forbidden, but
"Ritual" is a term we use to the practice describeof stepping into the threshold or liminal space
is accepted.
To say my mind is blown would be an understatement.
Before the sun comes up, I need to be on my way to Philadelphia. I won't have time to check this thread until Monday morning, by which time I will probably be wondering if I fell asleep on my keypad and dreamt this ordeal.
While this sounds a lot like aimless venting, I really have a practical purpose for sharing (inflicting?) my story on the ZenCart community.
I just want to know if anyone knows what would cause this type of behavior. Why would the mere inclusion of a word (and its position relative to the start of the field) consistently yield a Forbidden error?
Now if you all will excuse me, I need to contemplate my future life as a rodeo clown.
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