Title: 401 errors with TDO Mini Forms
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 401 errors with TDO Mini Forms

 *  [Simon Wheatley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonwheatley/)
 * (@simonwheatley)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/401-errors-with-tdo-mini-forms/)
 * I’m getting a lot of errors with TDO Mini Forms relating to having [moved WordPress to it’s own directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory)
   I think you need to look at a way to dynamically figure out the TDOMF plugin 
   directory somehow? The errors I receive are below:
 *     ```
       Error: No default author set! Create dummy user for default author automatically »
       Error: Got a 401 error when checking http://wp.test.site/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/tdomf-form-post.php! This will prevent posts from being submitted. The permissions may be wrong on the tdo-mini-forms folder.
       Error: Got a 401 error when checking http://wp.test.site/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/tdomf-form-ajax.php! This will prevent forms that use AJAX from submitting posts. The permissions may be wrong on the tdo-mini-forms folder.
       Error: Got a 401 error when checking http://wp.test.site/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/tdomf-style-form.css! This will make your forms, by default, look very ugly. The permissions may be wrong on the tdo-mini-forms folder.
       ```
   
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/)

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 *  [the_dead_one](https://wordpress.org/support/users/the_dead_one/)
 * (@the_dead_one)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/401-errors-with-tdo-mini-forms/#post-1059297)
 * Hmmm… not 100% sure that it’s having moved directory that is causing your errors.
   Why do you think this is the problem?
 * `Error: No default author set! Create dummy user for default author automatically»`
 * This error appears because you haven’t create a dummy user to assign new posts/
   pages to. WordPress requires a user to be set as the author of a post and so,
   by default, TDO-Mini-Forms needs a dummy user with no rights to associate to 
   the post. If you go to the options page, you should see a link to auto create
   one!
 * `Error: Got a 401 error when checking http://wp.test.site/wordpress/wp-content/
   plugins/tdo-mini-forms/tdomf-form-post.php! This will prevent posts from being
   submitted. The permissions may be wrong on the tdo-mini-forms folder.`
 * For all the “401” errors, the reason you’re getting them is that TDOMF uses WordPress
   to try to access the external files required by the plugin. However I several
   hosts I’ve noticed that it does not allow outbounds connections so this test 
   fails and throws up the errors.
 * If you correct the first error and then try to create a form and see if it works,
   the errors may be only red herrings.
 * Is the …/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/tdo-mini-forms/ path incorrect? Looking
   at the codex article, it would seem they are correct so I don’t see why there
   is any need for dynamically figuring out paths?

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