.htaccess blocks WordPress Export feature

  • itmonitor

    (@itmonitor)


    6 years ago

    Hello,

    When trying to export WordPress into a .xml file, using the WordPress dashboard tools for this, the .htaccess file will block it and throw a “Forbidden, You don’t have permission to access /wp-admin/export.php on this server.”

    On checking every code in the .htaccess, I found out the issue is caused by

    # BEGIN block author scans
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (author=\d+) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F]
# END block author scans

    This code is necessary to block bots from running author scans on WordPress websites.

    Is this some security issue with WordPress code? Why “block author scans” is blocking WordPress from exporting the .xml file?

    Any advice is welcome.

    IM

    • This topic was modified 6 years ago by Jan Dembowski. Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress topic
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  • corrinarusso

    (@corrinarusso)

    6 years ago

    Just remove it from htaccess, run your export, then put it back.

    Remember, any time you export files, copy files, move files, etc the disk needs a place to replicate the data into the /tmp directory on your server before it finalizes the process. I don’t know what the process in the export that is accessing your authors information but clearly there must be something in the export that validates the author first.

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