CKEditorPlugin gives 404 when trying to Browse

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I have been trying to move my site to a new server and have only one piece still not working. With the old one, we used the FCKeditor to add images to emails before sending. I was told to change over to the CKEditor as it works better. When I try to use it, the plugin seems to work until I hit the BROWSE button. I then get a 404 ERROR page instead of a list of available images. I tried what Duncan mentioned about typing in the full URL of the browse.php and still get the 404 file not found. Any help would be much appreciated.

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Just to clarify, the CKEditor plugin works for all the basics … text formats, lines and happy faces, alignment.

When I try to use the IMAGE PROPERTIES button, I can manually put in the URL and Alternate Text, however, the Browse Server button will only return a 404 error, file not found. I know this must be a setting somewhere but I am at wits end to find it. Anyone with knowledge of this and how I go about making it work, your assistance would be much appreciated.

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@Dougster Did you follow-up my suggestion about looking at the web server logs?

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I can’t find any logs written at the time the error occurs. Can you tell me which logs to look into?

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In the ERROR_LOG, it say Client denied by server configuration … browse.php referrer has a URL with a ? but no PHP file. Is this a misconfigured .htaccess file per chance? And where do I find the default .htaccess files for the folders?

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@Dougster There are .htaccess files in the lists, lists/admin and lists/admin/plugins/CKEditorPlugin/kcfinder directories.

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@Dougster There is something wrong with the .htaccess files, as I can browse to this URL
http://www.monicals.com/phpList/admin/plugins/CKEditorPlugin/kcfinder

That should be disallowed. On my site I get a popup “You don’t have permissions to browse server”.

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I’m confused as to why that is happening. I see all the .htaccess files but they all seem to deny access. Should I try downloading the phplist latest version again and copy the whole admin section in?

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OK … try that now. I think somehow the baseline .htaccess file wasn’t getting updated. Now, I have it totally updated and it seems to work correctly. Thanks again and sorry for being so hair brained.