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Holdfire clients using Mint, disable mod_security

Sunday, January 17th, 2010

We have currently changed around some of our mod_security settings on all of our servers and as a result have noticed a growing issue with Mint.

We receive the error "ModSecurity: Access denied with code 406 (phase 2). Invalid UTF-8 encoding: invalid byte value in character at ARGS:resource_title" from all instances of Mint on all of our servers. We looked into it and according to several posts on Mint's troubleshooting forum, Shaun has recommended the user include an .htaccess file in the mint directory with the following which will disable mod_security for that directory only.

References:

• Mint 2 appears to not be tracking stats
• Referrer only tracking links to homepage
• Mint refuses to track pages with titles with codes like &-#-8-2-1-7-;-s

Tags: haveamint, htaccess, mod_security, url+encoding
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