I'm trying to add questions and I get this error
" You don't have permission to access /question/question.php on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request."
I'm the admin and I'm using Moodle 2.9.1
Thanks in advance.
I think this is not a Moodle error. I think your web server is blocking these pages due to heurstics that are designed to block certain sort of URLs that look a bit like certain sorts of hack attempts against badly designed applications.
It comes up from time to time, e.g. https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=107067 or https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=216970.
You need to find what spurious rule your web server has decided to apply by default, and turn it off.
Thank you so much Tim. And yes mod_sec is enabled will ask our hosting to whitelist the location.
Just thought I'd add this since I just ran into it. I kept getting this error this morning on one of the sites we were working on. I was really getting annoyed because it was working before. Then I did a browser inspect and realized specific files weren't getting loaded and it was crashing. I gave it a half hour after purging my cache and everything. I did notice at the time the site was also running slow. This error message will come up randomly if the site is struggling. I think my host was having issues at the time so I just waited a half hour and everything started working again. Some times it's not actually Moodle at all, it's a server issue that you have no control over.
