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I noticed today that one of my sites returned 403 Access denied on various pages with URLs like format/<foo>
, although it was an alias for a taxonomy/term/<tid>
taxonomy path which was actually available when not aliased. What could be going on ?
It turned out that this issue is caused by the
http://drupal.org/node/28776
patch introduced in DRUPAL-6-7
to protect various VCS paths.
That patch introduced by this issue modifies the FilesMatch
clause to match on ^format$
(for SVN), which causes any path containing the format
string to be denied, causing that problem. Which gives the solution if this is a problem for you: either modify the relavant FilesMatch
clause or rename every path containing format
on your site.
Note that this specific subpattern has been rolled back and reworked after
http://drupal.org/node/581706
for DRUPAL-7-0-ALPHA2
, so Drupal 7 does not have this problem.
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