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    • 26240
    • 3 Posts
    hello there !

    im on modx for the first time since a few hours and very impressed by the ease of the installation and all the out of the box features.


    theres one thing though:
    i’ve been torturing myself trying to use the edit function(s), backend and frontend, to be able see the test edits that i made in the frontpage of the demo installation.
    to my great embarrassment, i cant say i overcame this one first hurdle so far. smiley

    after editing the demo content of the front page content and pressing save, invariably a blank page appears, no matter if I choose to ’continue editing’ in the options. and the page i tried to edit exibits the same stuff as before.

    attempts to use front end editing also lead to a blank page (inside the popup). No matter what i do, the same default demo content keeps reappearing on the front page.

    im acessing as admin.
    ive reapage i tired td the documentation and I tried clearing cache, to no avail.
    Ive tried about twenty times now....

    apparently im missing a point about permissions ?
    could someone get me back on the fun track, please ? smiley

    regards and thanks to all
    Satch

    (ah, i DID manage to add a post to the blog without problems, if that supplies any clues)

      • 10487 MODX Staff
      • 1,535 Posts
      Anything showing in your server/host error logs?

      If MODx is installed on a remote server, you could try re-copying the MODx files over again, maybe something didn’t get transferred properly. To be honest, we could do with more information on your particular setup to help with this.
        Garry Nutting
        Senior Developer
        MODX, LLC

        Email: [email protected]
        Twitter: @garryn
        Web: modx.com
        • 22303 MODX Staff
        • 10,725 Posts
        Sounds also like mod_security could be enabled and blocking your posts that contain certains types of HTML/Javascript content.
          • 26240
          • 3 Posts
          mod security is a part of modmx ?
          i didnt change anything in the standart installation, so if this is on by default, its on.
          and iw as merely modifying some words in the default text that was already there, nothing special, just playing around.

          thnx
          s


            • 22303 MODX Staff
            • 10,725 Posts
            No, mod_security is an Apache module which blocks certain things in POSTs. See http://wiki.modxcms.com/index.php/What_is_mod_security_and_how_does_it_affect_me
              • 26240
              • 3 Posts
              ok
              i assume its unrelated then, since im not getting any errors, just plain blank pages.
              wasn’t trying to save snippets either.
              would you say that being able to do blog posts and not being able to edit page text would fit a mod security related issue ?
              i’ll play arund with the htacess ayways, to make sure.

              cheers n many thanks
              s