Action you have requested is not allowed error

Question

I made a module named Gallery which works fine on my localhost with version 2.0.3, but when using version 2.1.0 on a remote site I can not submit a form and I get the error:

Answer 1

Im Using Codeigniter 3 same problem with

The action you have requested is not allowed.

Based on Isaac Pak's point, i changed my base_url to what i usally typed at the address bar. like this...

instead of putting

http://www.domain.org

i write it this way..

http://domain.org

since my base_url() is just..

$config['base_url'] = 'http://domain.org/';

the fix works for my site...

Answer 2

For me the problem was that I was loading the view in the index, than I changed as follow and it worked:

public function index()
{
    // Load Login Page
    redirect('login/login_page','refresh');

}

public function login_page()
{
    $data['title'] = 'Login Page';

    $this->load->view('templates/header', $data);
    $this->load->view('users/login_view', $data);
    $this->load->view('templates/footer');
}

Answer 3

On matters of programming, you don't go around problems, you fix it. What I mean to say is, this feature won't be here if it is unusable: 'coz it is and it works for me. You just have a problem on the implementation.

My answer: Remove all dashes, periods and any other non-alphanumeric characters from the values of following entries on application/config/config.php as seen below:

$config['sess_cookie_name'] = 'mycookiename'; //instead of "my_cookie_name"
$config['csrf_token_name']  = 'mycsrftoken';  //instead of "my.csrf.token"
$config['csrf_cookie_name'] = 'mycsrfcookie'; //instead of "my/csrf/cookie"

BTW, dashes sometimes work but I suggest using single words whenever possible when naming config values. Not unless you have the time and skills to study Codeigniter's core files related to what ever you are working on just to make sure it's safe to do so.

Anyways, I hope this help somebody out there even though my answer is more than a year late.

Answer 4

Use the codeigniter form opener like this:

<php echo form_open(url,method,attributes);?>

see codeigniter form documentation for more.

Answer 5

This is probably a rare case, but I didn't see my issue since my server has many different domain names that are very similar. The problem was that I was landing on a domain that was completely wrong, but since "The action you have requested is not allowed." error takes precedence over " 404 Not Found Error" I couldn't see it. My problem was that I didn't change my base_url to the correct domain. So if none of the above solutions work for you, you might check your settings for $config['base_url'] in application/config.