"POST requests from foreign hosts are not allowed"

[Meltingfire]

Im using vbIndex at www.site.com and vBulletin at "forum.site.com" and therefor i get the message "POST requests from foreign hosts are not allowed." when someone tries to login from vbindex page.

Is there someway to solve this? Maybe a settings in the admin cp for allowed sites or can i do some changes to the php or something? What i would like to do is to allow everyone from ".site.com"

[Zachery]

Are you running 3.0.6 ?

[Steve Machol]

We do not support vBIndex here or forums running hacked code. Please post in the appropriate forum at vbulletin.org for help.

[Meltingfire]

Yes im running 3.0.6, i think it was first introduced in 3.0.5.

I know that you dont support the hacks but this is me asking you how to make a change to init.php (since thats where you do the check) so that i can allow posts from another site.

Lets say it wasnt vbindex, but my own homemade site that i want to be able to send logins from to vbulletin. Shouldnt i be able to do that?

[Zachery]

If you are using all 3.0.6 fresh unhacked files, it should work fine, this bug was fixed in 3.0.5

[Meltingfire]

Well i downloaded 3.0.6 12 hours ago... and its not working....
The init.php even says "vBulletin 3.0.6"

I found the bug now!

You use "www" in the preg_replace on http_host

$http_host = preg_replace('#^www\.#i', '', $http_host); 

and since my forum is on "forum.site.com" it didnt work. I changed it to "forum" instead

$http_host = preg_replace('#^forum\.#i', '', $http_host); 

and now it works. My vbindex is running on www .site.com

[Alien]

Excellent. Is there a way to make it www AND forum if I wanted it to? This should resolve my problem then as well.

[ajaspers]

Try

 $http_host = preg_replace('#^(forum|www)\.#i', '', $http_host); 

[Alien]

Thank you SO kindly! I'll give that a whirl!

[NJTackle]

Having same problem and would like to try this solution. Where/what file do I change this in?

Thanks!

[Alien]

/includes/init.php

[Realystic]

I found another issue that causes this error,

if you own domain.com .. then have domain.net and domain.org registered but parked on your domain.com domain name, if someone tries to login to your .net or .org, you'll get the same error you guys are having above. At least that was what I had when I moved back to my .com and people till typing the old domain name in which I had parked.

Anyway I hope that helps a bit... I setup a new account with the other domains and then just did a meta tag refresh/404 pages on the old site, with a 2 second delay and my traffic is moving smoothly on the new site again.

[Nam]

You use "www" in the preg_replace on http_host

$http_host = preg_replace('#^www\.#i', '', $http_host); 

and since my forum is on "forum.site.com" it didnt work. I changed it to "forum" instead

$http_host = preg_replace('#^forum\.#i', '', $http_host); 

and now it works. My vbindex is running on www .site.com

Meltingfire, just want to let you know that you post did HELP me a lot, I had the exactly problem and thank to you, it's SOLVED .

Thank you again.

[peterska2]

I'm having this error on a multiple domain setup.

[xxskullxx]

Thanks for the fix. I was having the same exact problem.