I am getting an error when editing my test student profile.
You don't have permission to access /xxxx/user/edit.php on this server.
It views fine but when you update I get the error. edit.php permission is 755
This also is the case with editing admin profile.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Sounds very strange... can we get a screen shot of this error please?
/user/editadvanced.php works (for admin)
/user/edit.php Doesn't work (for admin or student)
This message is generated by the web server.
I would start by checking the web server's error log for this event. It will probably tell you that access is prevented due to the web server's configuration. If that's the case you will need to check the configuration files for the cause. Something in there is blocking files called 'edit.php'. It's also possible that this is due to some settings in a .htaccess file that 'belongs' to some other application. For example, we sometimes see problems like this when Moodle has been installed 'underneath' Wordpress.
It could still be caused by some odd permissions on that file, but 0755 would "normally" be ok regardless of ownership etc., so it's not where I would start.
Yep I had the same thought so I created a file edit.php under root/test/user/edit.php
I can view it (but that is true for the moodle one as well) and it runs this...
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>';
$content = "some text here";
$fp = fopen($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . "/myText.txt","wb");
fwrite($fp,$content);
fclose($fp);
?>
</body>
</html>
This is stand alone moodle (no wordpress)
FYI - There was a ModSecurity rule causing this error. I have put it to detection mode now and all works.
