403 Forbidden WP-Admin

  • Resolved anthlon

    (@anthlon)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi, I seem to having a bit of a weird bug. I can’t access my WordPress Dashboard. I can access other parts of the Admin panel like the Plugins/Users/Settings and things like that, but if I click on dashboard I’m given a 403 error saying I don’t have permission to access.

    Checking permissions with FileZilla it says everything is set to 700 which in CHMOD is the Owner can read, write and execute. I’ve tried deleting my htaccess file and pasting it back in. Resaving my Permalinks. It’s just giving me the 403 error when I try to access the Dashboard and nothing else it seems.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you.

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  • Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Set the directory to 755 and the files to 644. See if that helps.

    MyThemeShop

    (@mythemeshop)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi,
    It may be caused by the htaccess file. Try the following: navigate to Settings > Permalinks, set it to Default, save it, then revert the change and save again. You can also try removing any extra code you see in the file outside of the # BEGIN WordPress ... # END WordPress block.
    If it’s still not working, I’d suggest contacting your hosting provider, there might be some server configuration issue.
    Hope that helps.

    Thread Starter anthlon

    (@anthlon)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Steve, I tried setting the directory’s to 755 inside FileZilla and I’m given this.
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    When I try and change the files to 644 I’m told that they are being changed but the permissions stay at 700. Still no change however.

    Hi ThemeShop, I tried setting the permalinks to default and then refreshing didn’t work. Set them back to default and then refreshed, still didn’t work.
    I don’t think I have anything outside of the #BEGIN or the #END WordPress block.
    Here is a pastebin of the htaccess PasteBin

    It’s just such a weird thing that it’s only the Dashboard that isn’t working. I can access pages/posts/plugins just not the Dashboard.

    Moderator Steven Stern (sterndata)

    (@sterndata)

    Volunteer Forum Moderator

    9 years, 8 months ago

    I think you need to contact tech support at your host.

    Thread Starter anthlon

    (@anthlon)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    I figure out the problem, some way, some how the index.php file inside of the wp-admin folder was either removed or deleted. I just re-downloaded WordPress and copied the index.php file from the folder and uploaded it. This fixed the problem for me 🙂

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