Kirby 3: The form could not be saved, check your API connection

Kirby 3 Solved ✅
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Hello!
Any ideas what might be causing this problem? After moving the Kirby installation to a dev server, I am unable to save changes in pages, getting the error pictured.

Kirby v3.0.1
PHP v7.3.1
phpinfo: http://dev.aparat-studio.com/info.php

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Thanks!

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Have you removed all files from the media folder? If not, try clearing it.
What about folder and file permissions?

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Thanks for your reply.

I tried removing the /media folder and double-checked that the permissions are 755.

Tried reverting the install to vanilla kirby-starterkit, but the problem still persists.

I get the following error message in console, but I don‘t know how to check the API response.

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Have you checked the network tab?

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Thanks for the pointer. I did (see screenshot), but I honestly don’t know what the fix might be. I contacted the web hosting support to see if there might be a server settings/.htaccess entry that might be causing it.

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The error seems to be thrown because the response is not proper JSON and therefore cannot be parsed. But I can’t see from that screenshot what is returned.

Have you also set ownership of the files correctly, not only permissions?

7

Hello Sonja, actually I just spoke to the hosting provider and it was a security setting on their part that rejected HTTP PATCH requests. Changing it resolved the issue.

Thank you for your help, closing the issue.

8

Hi Christian,

Do you knwo what specific security setting had to be changed? Could you ask the hosting provider maybe and find out and share this?

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Probably mod_security like here: Kirby 3: Can't edit page content via panel in production

10

The Http Request Method PATCH is not often enabled. I managed to get it working with the Apache Module mod_allowmethods. This is an experimental module from apache 2.3 onwards, meant to replace usage of Limit. Once enabled, you can add something like the following in your conf file(s):

<Location “/”>
AllowMethods GET POST OPTIONS PATCH

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Does anyone know how to get this working on NGINX?

I can’t delete images through the panel … am getting the message “The JSON response from the API could not be parsed. Please check your API connection.”

I’ve tried adding

location / {
	
  if ($request_method = 'OPTIONS') {
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
    add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, PATCH, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS';
  }
	try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$query_string;
}

but to no avail.

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I am getting this same error, but only when adding hooks. I am testing with code straight from docs:

'hooks' => [
    'page.create:before' => function ($event) {
        var_dump($event->name());   // 'page.create:before'
        var_dump($event->type());   // 'page'
        var_dump($event->action()); // 'create'
        var_dump($event->state());  // 'before'
        var_dump($event->page());   // $page
        var_dump($event->input());  // $input
    }
]

If I keep the hook, but remove var_dump then the save happens correctly still. Debug mode is enabled. Any ideas?

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Oops, see now that the var_dump outputs into the JSON response, causing incorrect JSON and throwing the error. Maybe not the best way to show a hooks example on the docs!

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That example is inside a Since 3.4.0 section. The code will work once Kirby 3.4.0 is released. :slight_smile:

You are right about that. I will change it.

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Hi,
I had the same error message, for me the problem was coming from my blueprint file.yml, I was using french character (é).