Updating template fails and redirects to front side homepage?
Development and Programming
I’ve got a legacy EE site that I just moved to a new server. Everything seems find except for this issue. When I try to edit a template from within EE and click “Update and Finished” or “Update”, the save doesn’t happen and I’m redirected to the homepage on the front of the site. And the URL becomes:
http://domain.com/system/index.php?S=0&D=cp&C=design&M=update_template&tgpref=3
EE 2.5.5
That’s a very old version of ExpressionEngine, so I definitely encourage you to update. However, the behavior you describe sounds more like a server environment issues, specifically with mod_security. Some hosts have this Apache module installed with very aggressive filters. A common filter is to reject requests which contain POST data that has markup or code—which is obviously going to be common in the admin area of a CMS.
Whatever the case, you should be able to find something in the server access and error logs pertaining to that request, and assuming it’s mod_security, I would ask your host to whitelist your admin.php entirely, as it’s only going to frustrate common administrative tasks.
That was it!!! Thank you so much.
Glad to help FuturShoc!