Hi,

my problem is this when I try to add new K2 menu item from the back end I receive:

Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /administrator/index.php on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

 

This happen only on my production server when I dawnload the full back-up site on my local server this error is not showing up.

My configuration on production are as follow:

Joomla! 1.5.22 Stable

PHP Version: 5.2.9

K2 2.4.1

My user is Super administrator in Joomla in K2 users I try with 

imported Super Administrator user

also change it to Site Owner and Registered

in all this cases I receive the mentioned above error.

My configuration on local (running on XAMP) are the same as on production:

Joomla 1.5.22 Stable

PHP Version 5.2.9

K2 2.4.1

 

Folder permisions on production are:

com_k2 - 755

com_menus - 755

I checked permision on sites hosted with same configuration on the same server they are the same but they all works :(

Please can you point me where to look for solution

 

So after nearly 2 weeks searching about this I found that this is related to ModSecurity on my hostting I'll contact the hosting provider to turn that off but I've got one question is this make some security risk for my site? Since no one answer on this post for so much time if I find something will post it here so this will continue to look like blog not comunity post :-)

So I contacted my hosting provider and they turn off ModSecurity on this account and all is working as expected.

But...

I don't like it so will continue searching for more smart solution as I found there are some for WordPress sites with custom .htaccess overides which sounds more suitable and a lot smarter