# Non riesco a creare una categoria

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-can-not-create-a-category/109188
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [14 Febbraio 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-can-not-create-a-category/109188 "2019-02-14T21:17:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author: ![Marija\_Babovic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marija_babovic/32/131553_2.png) [@Marija\_Babovic](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Marija_Babovic)
#### Post date: [14 Febbraio 2019, 9:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-can-not-create-a-category/109188/1 "2019-02-14T21:17:23Z")

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When I want to create a category, nothing is happening, please see video: [https://youtu.be/YYf4vHn2BfU](https://youtu.be/YYf4vHn2BfU)

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### Author: ![itsbhanusharma](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/itsbhanusharma/32/180717_2.png) [@itsbhanusharma](https://meta.discourse.org/u/itsbhanusharma)
#### Post date: [14 Febbraio 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-can-not-create-a-category/109188/2 "2019-02-14T21:43:34Z")

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I can repro this! Probably a bug?

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### Author: ![Marija\_Babovic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marija_babovic/32/131553_2.png) [@Marija\_Babovic](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Marija_Babovic)
#### Post date: [14 Febbraio 2019, 9:49pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-can-not-create-a-category/109188/3 "2019-02-14T21:49:01Z")

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New installation… [Screenshot by Lightshot](https://prnt.sc/ml8l1c)

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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [14 Febbraio 2019, 11:13pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-can-not-create-a-category/109188/6 "2019-02-14T23:13:50Z")

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Me too. Fresh install: `Discourse 2.3.0.beta2 - https://github.com/discourse/discourse version e55c19d8ce144274d72a8f4c130216f036113cbd`

Could be (but not obviously) related to [FIX: validate parent category/subcategories permissions · discourse/discourse@3952265 · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/39522659a6fd7225d89f5a0bb81116ecc04100c2). @sam, you might want to have a look.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [14 Febbraio 2019, 11:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-can-not-create-a-category/109188/7 "2019-02-14T23:26:41Z")

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Sorry… was not related to @maja’s change it was safe, was a regression in a security fix we had.

Fixed per:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f8b70f4ca3f17efde7f8d5e626f692ab0f16e92e](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/f8b70f4ca3f17efde7f8d5e626f692ab0f16e92e)

Getting it backported now.

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### Author: ![Marija\_Babovic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/marija_babovic/32/131553_2.png) [@Marija\_Babovic](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Marija_Babovic)
#### Post date: [14 Febbraio 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-can-not-create-a-category/109188/8 "2019-02-14T23:55:49Z")

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Thank you very much, but what should I do? How to fix it?

Thanks

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [14 Febbraio 2019, 11:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-can-not-create-a-category/109188/9 "2019-02-14T23:58:36Z")

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head to `yourdiscourse.com/admin/upgrade` and do an upgrade, it should be resolved.

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [15 Febbraio 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/i-can-not-create-a-category/109188/10 "2019-02-15T00:28:18Z")

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