Bad HTTP_REFERER errorSubmitted by awoodworth on Thu, 11/08/2007 - 3:45pm.I have set up a new PUNBB jumpbox, registered it, and accessed it via the url http://192.168.100.100/punbb. The first thing I did was create a DNS host record to point to that address and then change the base URL to http://jumpbox.domain.com. The change was accepted, but any further activity just results in the above bad referrer error message. I cleared the case in var/data/punbb/cache/ with no success. No matter what I do, I can't proceed any further. Please provide guidance. Thanks |
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Disabling the navigation bar
Disabling the navigation bar should have made PunBB accessible on http://192.168.100.100/ automatically without having to change the application "Base URL" setting. Actually, the tricky thing may be that the application is available at BOTH http://192.168.100.100/ and http://192.168.100.100/punbb
Unfortunately, in integrating with our management tools to simplify setup and administration we loose some flexibility in making arbitrary changes like the URL. But in this case, you should be able to access it the way you want.
Austin
I disabled the navigation
I disabled the navigation bar.
By "Change the base URL", I was referring to logging in as a forum administrator, navigating to "Administration" from the top menu, selecting "Options" from the left-hand menu, and then changing the value of "Base URL". The original value in this field was "http://192.168.100.100/punbb". I changed the value of this field to "http://jumpbox.domain.com/punbb" after creating a host record on the DNS server to point "http://jumpbox.domain.com" to 192.168.100.100.
I expected that this would make the forums available using the URL "http://jumpbox.domain.com/punbb". The site is accessible at this URL, but making any changes from the "Administration", "Options" page results in the "Bad HTTP_REFERER" error.
I would think this is a pretty common scenario - changing the URL at which the forums are available.
Also, did you disable the
Also, did you disable the JumpBox navigation bar at the top?
What do you mean by "then
What do you mean by "then change the base URL to http://jumpbox.domain.com"? How did you accomplish this?
Also, did you set a static IP address?
This error is caused by the app not knowing its correct IP address. This type of thing is typically not too difficult to resolve. But a word of warning. If you externally (not using the admin interface) change settings like IP address, hostname or reconfigure apache, you can run into trouble.
Austin