Shot in the foot by anti-referrer spam measures..

In a word, d’oh!

Spent a while trying to work out why I could install the Google Analyticator ^[1] plugin but then when I tried to customise it from its option page, or go to any other link on my site from it I got a 403 Forbidden error. Looking at the Apache logs didn’t give much help, it was just whinging about client denied by server configuration and I was completely stumped, so I thought it must be some weird bug and installed Rich’s Analytics plugin ^[2], but that had the same problem!

But the fact that two plugins with similar names had the problem, whereas others were finally caused the penny to drop – I had installed a whole bunch of .htaccess to prevent comment spammers from getting too many links in and if they match they return with a 403 error. Turns out that one of them was broken and matching on the “anal” in Analytics!

Sigh.. at least it works now!