Topic on Extension talk:AbuseFilter

Ciencia Al Poder Gave me the solution: It was the ModSecurity that was blocking the implementation of the abusefilter I wanted. Thanks again!

I've succesfully imported three filters from wikipedia and when I tried to import the fourth one, I get this message. I don't understand why this is happening all of a sudden. I am logged in, I am the sysop and I'm not on SSL.

The same happens when I try to create a new filter. I can click the link, fill out the details and when I try to save it, I can the above message.

How can I solve this?

Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /wiki/Special:AbuseFilter/new on this server.

Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

You're probably hitting a spam filter or other filter that prevents submitting content with special words/characters. This is configured on the server, MediaWiki doesn't handle this error, often caused by ModSecurity. Contact your host about this.

It was indeed the ModSecurity. The host has whitelisted the rule there, so that I could the abusefilter rule :)

Thanks for the help!