Title: Posts truncated when editing
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Posts truncated when editing

 *  Resolved [dunnerz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunnerz/)
 * (@dunnerz)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-truncated-when-editing/)
 * Hi,
 * One of my sites
    [http://www.southendmusicfestival.co.uk](http://www.southendmusicfestival.co.uk)
   is having a strange issue.
 * Upon editing a page (one of note, about us) only about half of the information
   updates (this happens when I press the update button without any modifications,
   also note that auto save is stuck at saving to draft). I have to restore from
   previous revisions.
 * So far I have tried:
    Changing theme Disable all plugins Dump and recreate database
   Check character encoding on all db tables
 * Have also checked mod security is not working
 * Also, I tried using the export tool, it exports ok, but when trying to import
   to a different instance it says file incomplete.
 * Also noticed that phpmyadmin won’t export it (empty file).
 * I guess it’s some sort of character encoding issue, but I can’t see anything 
   obvious (copying text to text editor and back again doesn’t help),
 * I have recently upgraded debian, which includes php going to 5.6 and mysql to
   5.6 as well.
 * Does anyone have any ideas?
 * Thanks.

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 *  Moderator [t-p](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t-p/)
 * (@t-p)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-truncated-when-editing/#post-6713347)
 * It could be a server security configuration issue:
    [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-a-post-or-page-with-certain-text](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-save-a-post-or-page-with-certain-text)
 *  Thread Starter [dunnerz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunnerz/)
 * (@dunnerz)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-truncated-when-editing/#post-6713363)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks – but had already checked that thread.
 * Looking at $_POST and php://input the data is truncated at that point too – but
   using firebug I can see the request is in the payload all okay.
 * Cheers.
 *  Thread Starter [dunnerz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dunnerz/)
 * (@dunnerz)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-truncated-when-editing/#post-6713472)
 * Not a wordpress issue, please see excert from a chat below:
 * Assumed it was encoding issue (had just updated wordpress and database,e tc.)
   
   Also because JSON in ajax had full content – php://input was truncated tldr ….
   it wasn’t wordpress installed dumpio and got raw apache posts turns out php sapi
   was truncating the post [https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69487](https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=69487)
   Although I thought I was on a higher version than that In fact, I am – but it
   still exists Somehow, big permissions bug when updating my debian version apt-
   get remove –purge all of apache and php, then it started working

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/posts-truncated-when-editing/#post-6713472)
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