Title: Mod_Security issue
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Mod_Security issue

 *  [danielfarrellnzl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielfarrellnzl/)
 * (@danielfarrellnzl)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_security-issue/)
 * I just upgraded to WP 4.0 and am having some issues with plugins. Any time I 
   try to do anything with any plugin, I get a Mod_Security error:
 * Not Acceptable!
 * An appropriate representation of the requested resource could not be found on
   this server. This error was generated by Mod_Security.
 * If I go back and click on any link, it comes up with the same error. If I go 
   to a page using the URL bar in my browser, it doesn’t.
 * Installing plugins through the plugin directory doesn’t work. Installing by uploading
   a .zip does, but then trying to change any settings gives me the error again.
 * I have tried putting:
 *     ```
       <ifModule mod_security.c>
       SecFilterEngine Off
       SecFilterScanPOST Off
       </ifModule>
       ```
   
 * into a .htaccess file in my /wp-admin folder, as well as in public_html. It doesn’t
   do anything. I’ve also tried putting **SecFilterEngine Off** and **SecFilterScanPOST
   Off** without the if tags, both separately and together, and it just makes my
   site throw a 500 error.
 * Any ideas? As it doesn’t happen without going into the backend, I’m guessing 
   a link won’t really help, but my site is [http://www.danielfarrell.co.nz](http://www.danielfarrell.co.nz)
   either way.
 * Any ideas?

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 *  [darkhorse20](https://wordpress.org/support/users/darkhorse20/)
 * (@darkhorse20)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_security-issue/#post-5267397)
 * The only thing I could suggest is to contact your hosting provider and tell them
   you have having issues with mod_security. They might have a fix for it.
 * You also might also want to try giving WP more memory too.

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mod_security-issue/#post-5267397)
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