Kapt Kaos

I have been trying to get ScribeFire working with my wordpress blogs for several months now. I have gone to the support page for ScribeFire and seen that many people are having this same problem.

I found the fix today!!!

For the impatiant the fix is to add SecFilterEngine Off to your .htaccess file location that your xmlrpc.php file is.

If you want to know how I figured this out read on…

First let me review the problem.

You have installed ScribeFire and are trying to setup access to your blog. You go through the configuration process and get to the screen where you enter the user name and password. You enter these but you get a response back indicating that you have entered the wrong user name and password.

Knowing you have enter the correct login info you are stuck.

I decided to run wireshark and sniff my http traffic. Low and behold I find I am getting 403 forbidden error when scribefire tries to access the xmlrpc.php file.

I check the permissions and they are the same as all the other .php file. Then I remember that several months earlier I had a problem with 403 forbidden errors with my wordpress blog. The solution had been to add SecFilterEngine Off to the .htaccess file located in wp-admin.

This time added it the .htaccess file at the root of my wordpress blog. I added this below with rewrite rules.

Volia! Now it works as expected.

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