error - 403 - Access forbidden! - Help Needed

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error - 403 - Access forbidden! - Help Needed

Postby sanei05 » 01. December 2013 13:21

Hi,

I am a newbie to PHP and practising few php codes. I installed xampp 1.8.31 and mysql db 5.5.53 (separate from Xampp) and apache using xampp. I was doing some php coding and below is my code. I am trying to submit a sample text but when I try to do it, I get the following error.

Access forbidden!

You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 403

localhost
Apache/2.4.4 (Win32) OpenSSL/0.9.8y PHP/5.4.19


My php codes is as follows
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<html>
<head>
<title> Add Joke </title>
</head>
<body>

<?php
if (isset ($_GET['addjoke'])): // If the user wants to add the joke
?>

<form action="<?$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
<p> Type your joke here: <br />
<textarea name="joketext" rows="10" cols="40" wrap>
</textarea><br />
<input type="submit" name="submitjoke" value="Submit" />
</p>
</form>
<?php


else: // Default page display

//Connect to the database

$dbcnx =@mysqli_connect("localhost","phpmysql","phpmysql","testmysql");
if (! $dbcnx) {
die ('<p> Unable to connect to database at this time </p>');
}

// If a joke has been submitted , add it to the database
if (isset($_POST['submitjoke'])) {
$sql =  "insert into jokes (joketext,jokedate) values ('$_POST[joketext]','CURDATE()')";
if (@mysqli_query($dbcnx,$sql)){
echo ('<p> Your Joke has been added successfully.</p>');
} else {
echo ('<p> Error in writing the joke to the database. mysqli_error()  </p>');
}
}

echo ('<p> Here are all our jokes in the database. </p>');
//Request for all jokes in the database.

$result=@mysqli_query($dbcnx,"select joketext from jokes");
if(!$result) {
die ('<p> Error in performing query.' .
    mysqli_error($dbcnx) . '</p>');
}

//Display the text of each joke in the paragraph
while ($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result)){
echo ('<p>' . $row['joketext'] . '</p>');
}

//When clicked , this link will load this page with the joke submission form displayed.
echo('<p><a href="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] .
     '?addjoke=1"> Add a Joke ! </a></p>');

endif;

?>
</body>
</html>



The code is successful without any syntax problem. I googled for this error and was asked to provide "Require All granted" . I provided in httpd.conf file but still the same error. I am getting below error when I refer to error log.

[Sun Dec 01 16:13:58.575798 2013] [core:error] [pid 4968:tid 1764] (20024)The given path is misformatted or contained invalid characters: [client ::1:52661] AH00127: Cannot map POST /website/%3C?$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?%3E HTTP/1.1 to file, referer: https://localhost/website/addjokes.php?addjoke=1


Can anyone guide me where I am making mistake and what needs to be done.

[edit by Altrea: added code-BBTags to make this post more readable]
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Re: error - 403 - Access forbidden! - Help Needed

Postby Altrea » 01. December 2013 13:40

Hi sanei05,

sanei05 wrote:<form action="<?$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">

Take a minute to look at your form action. I am very sure you will see what is wrong there.

sanei05 wrote:I googled for this error and was asked to provide "Require All granted" . I provided in httpd.conf file but still the same error.

Quickly undo this change.

best wishes,
Altrea
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Re: error - 403 - Access forbidden! - Help Needed

Postby sanei05 » 01. December 2013 14:34

Hi Altrea,

Thanks, I modify the form as below and its working fine.

<form action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>" method="post">
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