It wasn’t a problem with my path, but thanks bh. I found the solution here: http://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/185417?replies=23 It was mod_security playing games with me.
The changing of .htaccess worked for me, thank you so much I have been searching for hours!
Does anyone know just how dangerous it is to leave the “filterengine” and “filtersacnPOST” commands turned off?
I too have this problem. I changed the permissions of the options file all the way up to 777 and then tried all the files prefixed with “options-” set at 777 and I still couldn’t change settings. If someone knows where wp can be manually edited (in this case the tagline) it’d be much appreciated if you’d share! I’ll keep looking!