Precondition Failed

Ruby Apps Radiant CMS
1

Ok, this is beginning to irk me. On random occasions, when I’m creating
a
new page in Radiant, and I try to save the page, it will give me a white
error page the says “Precondition Failed” at the top. What causes this
and
how can I avoid it, or is it a bug that needs to be worked out? It most
often happens on longer pages; is there a size limit?

Sean C.
seancribbs.com

2

It looks like your web host may be to blame. I had the same error
message when trying to submit a ticket for Radiant:

http://lists.radiantcms.org/pipermail/radiant/2006-August/001201.html

I don’t know what a good solution is, besides never talking about
internet protocols or file paths in messages submitted by web forms.
You may have to talk to your hosting provider.

James

3

Sean C. wrote:

Ok, this is beginning to irk me. On random occasions, when I’m creating a
new page in Radiant, and I try to save the page, it will give me a white
error page the says “Precondition Failed” at the top. What causes this and
how can I avoid it, or is it a bug that needs to be worked out? It most
often happens on longer pages; is there a size limit?

Servers often have rules for posts defining what words fields can
contain and the length, etc… Precondition Failed error messages are
the result of this. I don’t think there is anything I can do for you on
my end. Check with your system administrator.

–
John L.
http://wiseheartdesign.com

4

Thanks, guys. I’ll be contacting TextDrive.

Sean

5

On Aug 10, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Sean C. wrote:

error page the says “Precondition Failed” at the top. What

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Sean-

That Precondition Failed error is from mod_security. Textdrive runs

that on all their shared servers. So something in the url you are
trying to reach has triggered mod_security filter.

-Ezra