Can’t login to wp admin – Forbidden(??)

  • Resolved jcattanach

    (@jcattanach)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    I went to my login page of my blog, which looked totally different from the usual and I tried to log in and I get the following error message:

    Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-admin/ on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    I haven’t done anything to the files. I posted a blog post on 2 days ago and it was working fine. Can anybody help me with this please.

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  • budboy

    (@budboy)

    15 years, 4 months ago

    I’m a newbie to WordPress (although experienced in html/css, site builds, ftp etc), and I’m really keep to get to grips with it. Unfortunately I have EXACTLY the same problem as above:

    The default site loads fine, I just cannot login to the admin, I always get:

    Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access /blog/wp-login.php on this server.

    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    1. I’m using Version 2.7 and have followed the 5 minute install.
    2. I have reinstalled numerous times on two different servers and still get the same result.
    3. I have also tried resetting the password as suggested elsewhere.

    Have now run out of ideas!

    Please could someone advise as to what the problem may be and how I can correct this?

    Thank You
    BudBoy

    budboy

    (@budboy)

    15 years, 4 months ago

    Ah-ha!

    Having run out of ideas I contacted one of my hosts and asked them about this problem.

    Turns out it was due to Mod_security being enabled! This is a ‘by request’ function which is set for security reasons.

    Once disabled the admin worked fine!

    Hope this helps if you’re having similar problems.

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