Title: Bad Request Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Bad Request * [oldmuttonhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oldmuttonhead/) * (@oldmuttonhead) * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-request-1/) * All of sudden when I try to save or publish an article on my blog I get a “Bad Request” message that says this: * > Please contact the site administrator, and provide the following Reference > ID: > 0CCA-9D7E-28DF-2EFD * The reference ID always changes. This first happened in the middle of a new post when it tried to autosave. Now it happens at autosave AND when I publish or save. * Where do I begin to look to figure out what is wrong? * Thanks! Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) * Thread Starter [oldmuttonhead](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oldmuttonhead/) * (@oldmuttonhead) * [17 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-request-1/#post-953051) * UPDATE: I upgraded to 2.7 and still get the same error. 🙁 * [tony199](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tony199/) * (@tony199) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-request-1/#post-953143) * I had the same problem, it was resolved by adding this to the httpd.conf: * SecRuleInheritance Off * as in: * DocumentRoot /var/www/html/blog ServerAlias *.domain.com ServerName domain.com SecRuleInheritance Off * [http://www.riight.com](http://www.riight.com) Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total) The topic ‘Bad Request’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [bad request](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/bad-request/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 2 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [tony199](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tony199/) * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bad-request-1/#post-953143) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics