You are not allowed to access this URL directly, POST array.

Hello,

I have recently purchased Chronoforms Ver. 3.1 RC 5.5 (3 subscription) and installed it on Joomla 1.5.15.

My Error: "You are not allowed to access this URL directly, POST array is empty." Also, The information does not e-mail either.

I have tried the following based upon about 6 hours of reading through forums, tutorials, faqs on this site. None worked.

1) Removed SEF setting in global configuration. Same error, so I turned it back on.
2) Added "www" to live site in configuration.php
3) Replaced Dynamic From Name with Static From Name
4) Removed upper case in Form Name
5) Tried turning off Captcha by turning off Anti-Spam. Same error, so I turned it back on.
6) Although I created a Thank You page as an article and put the URL (id=9) in the Redirect URL, I deleted it and used the following code in the Form Code tab:
<h1>Thank you for contacting us!</h1>
<p>You will hear from us soon.</p>
<p><strong>Business Owners Institute</strong></p>
<p>P.O. Box 314<br />Oilville, Va 23129<br />Phone: (804)-938-TEAM(8326)<br />Fax: (804) 201-4702</p>
7) Turned Debug On...no results.
8 ) Turned CheckToken OFF.

Am I missing something? I created a backup of the form and attached per your instructions.

URL of form: http://businessownersinstitute.biz/index.php/what-we-do/contact-us

The installation is validated.

Thank you for your time,
Mary

Hi Mary,

It's late at night here now but form a quick look I think it has to do with the 301 redirection from the <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.businessownersinstitute.biz">www.businessownersinstitute.biz</a><!-- w --> to <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.businessownersinstitute.biz">www.businessownersinstitute.biz</a><!-- w -->

The form is showing <!-- w --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.businessownersinstitute.biz">www.businessownersinstitute.biz</a><!-- w --> in the action but is being redirected to the other url. I think that all the data is being lost in the redirection and so ChronoForms receives the form with no data and shows the error message.

It may be that the live-site parameter in the site config is set to the www. version.

Bob

Hello Bob,

You mentioned a 301 redirect from and to the same domain. Is that correct? Where do you see this redirect (so that I can change it)?

Thanks,
Mary

Hi Mary,

Yes, something is redirecting from the version with www. to the version without. I think that whtever is doing that is causing the problem.

Bob

I have just discovered this problem. I have applied none of the customisations that are cited to induce errors mentioned in numerous posts such as SEF/plugins, or other site redirection, or misplaced form tags.

I find that Firefox works, but IE (all versions),Chrome and Safari all consistently give the "You are not allowed..." error.

What happens is that, instead of the form redirecting to the correct article:
http://fustratingerror.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=21

It instead the redirect seems to get 'trapped' in com_chronocontact and redirects to:
http://fustratingerror.com/index.php?option=com_chronocontact&task=send&chronoformname=some_form
All this page shows is the "You are not allowed..." message

Following a result given on another forum thread, It turns out that in this case, the
error is solved by turning off the site cache in Joomla Global Config which is a fustration in itself.

I would like to use the site cache, what can be done to avoid the site from getting trapped on the send task... (index.php?option=com_chronocontact&task=send&chronoformname=some_form)

Mike

Hi Mike,

The cache prolem is discussed in this thread. Fredrik knows much more about such things than I do.

The Post array empty message means that by the time ChronoForms gets to see the form results there aren’t any left. Literally the results array is empty (ChronoForms has a couple of hidden inputs to ensure that some result is always returned even if the form is left empty).

I'm not sure what you mean by the form redirecting to the correct article? Is this something that you have set up somewhere; or something that you want to happen? ChronoForms normally displays the option=com_chronocontact&task=send&chronoformname=some_form page unless you set it up to do something else.

Bob