Our Discourse instance displays a 403 error with the message: “You are not permitted to view the requested resource” when attempting to edit a post as Wiki. What could be causing this issue? There is no related information in /logs.

Aha, I found it, thanks for the suggestion! It’s the category mod enhancer plugin that caused the issue.

Could you watch the browser console logs, and see if anything odd pops up there?

Of course, as I said I get → 403 “You are not permitted to view the requested resource”

Just to be sure, now the admin settings are group-allowed could you give them a once over to make sure admin and mod are default included for editing wikis (and maybe others if you have tags or images in there)

I mean like anything besides the 403, is anything else erroring?

[image] JammyDodger: Just to be sure, now the admin settings are group-allowed could you give them a once over to make sure admin and mod are default included for editing wikis (and maybe others if you have tags or images in there) Both added, for sure. Thanks for your reply. [image] Firepup Sixfifty: I mean like anything besides the 403, is anything else erroring? I understand but there is nothing more (!)

I’m having trouble making a wiki post as well. I’m getting this error when trying to make one of my own posts a wiki, as well as trying to make another user’s post a wiki. [image] I’m an admin Edit wiki post allowed groups is set to admins, moderators, everyone Self wiki allowed groups is set to admins, moderators, everyone Edit post allowed groups is set to admins, moderators, tl0 Edit all post groups is set to admins, moderators, tl4 The category’s security settings are set to allow everyone to see, reply, and create The category does not have Make new topics wikis by default enabled - nor should it be, not every post should be a wiki in this category The category does not have any category moderators I tried to change post ownership to myself and make the post a wiki - did not work I logged in as a test user with tl3 and created a post - did not work I tried impersonating the user who made the post, to try and make it a wiki - did not work I tried creating my own post and making it a wiki - did not work I tried running the site in safe mode - did not work I’m kind of out of ideas now, not sure what else to try!

Do you use any unofficial plugins?

Yes: BBcode tabs Discourse Category Restrictor Custom Wizard Dynamic Groups Landing Pages Private Replies Private Topics I went through and disabled each of these one by one and tested each time - still no luck. I disabled all of them, still no luck. I also tried running the site in safe mode, and it didn’t work either. edited to add: I also just updated the site to v2026.01.0-latest and still no luck.

[image] jenmck: also tried running the site in safe mode, and it didn’t work either. Hi Jen - are there any errors showing up in the console when you get the error message in the UI? I’ve tried to replicate your settings on one of my self-hosted instances, but I cannot reproduce the issue and I can create and edit wiki posts as expected.

Yes - here’s what I’ve got in the console. Before I updated to v2026.01, there weren’t any references to video-thumbnail or video-placeholder. There aren’t any videos at all anywhere on this dev instance. Here’s the console: [image] Here’s the response headers: [image] edited to add: I created a new category and enabled Make new topics wikis by default. I was able to make a new topic in this category which was a wiki. However, I get the same error as before when i click on Remove Wiki for that post.

Can't create Wiki (as admin)

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Moin January 16, 2026, 10:45pm 16

It would have been helpful if you had shared that when I asked which plugins you have installed. I tried to reproduce the problem with all the ones you mentioned, but wasn’t able to find anything.

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