Title: options.php: 403 after saving
Last modified: September 3, 2021

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# options.php: 403 after saving

 *  [hessi2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hessi2/)
 * (@hessi2)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/options-php-403-after-saving/)
 * Hi Folks!
 * When I want to save options.php even without changes, a 403 error appears.
    Disabled
   all plugins, renamed the htaccess, but the error remains.
 * Any ideas?
    TIA Regards Michael
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not an Everything else WordPress
      topic

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 *  [corusx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corusx/)
 * (@corusx)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/options-php-403-after-saving/#post-14837598)
 * did you check the file permission and ownership ?
 * > [Changing File Permissions](https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-file-permissions/)
 *  Thread Starter [hessi2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hessi2/)
 * (@hessi2)
 * [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/options-php-403-after-saving/#post-14863036)
 * Thanks for the quick reply.
 * My provider had a web application firewall for the webspace that also monitors
   WordPress. Disabling it didn’t work at first, because you have to wait some time
   until it was really disabled. I did not suspect that, so I looked for the error
   in other places.
 * Long story short: The WAF was the problem.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/options-php-403-after-saving/#post-14863036)
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