If you run into issues posting to the forum
Posted: Sat May 23, 2026 12:49 am
Since running a PHP application like phpBB on the public internet terrifies me, I put a web application firewall in front of it. I just had one of my replies erroneously flagged, which results in the request being dropped with a 403 Forbidden response. It seems common UNIX command names like time and exec trigger the firewall if they're not wrapped in BBCode. So if this happens to you try wrapping command names in italics or something. You can also let me know if you can't work out what's triggering it. The rules are involved to adjust, so I need to find a better option.