Title: Broken Admin Panel
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Broken Admin Panel

 *  [paranoid-onion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paranoid-onion/)
 * (@paranoid-onion)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-admin-panel/)
 * So the embarrassing story is, I was trying to fix my permissions in my file manager
   because I wanted to fix my permalinks so I could get my pages to work. I accidently
   completely messed up my admin panel to the point where I can’t get it to work
   whatsoever, even though my website shows.
 * My website is [http://www.paranoidonion.com](http://www.paranoidonion.com)
 * I’m not quite sure how to go about fixing this, or if fixing it is possible. 
   If anyone could give me any help at all with this I am very frustrated and it
   would be appreciated. I could completely reinstall wordpress, which is possible
   because I have all of the code files backed up on my hard drive (I use dreamweaver)
   but I would prefer to avoid this so I don’t have to recreate all my pages and
   page content. 🙁
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [paranoid-onion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paranoid-onion/)
 * (@paranoid-onion)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-admin-panel/#post-1694823)
 * I’m guessing no one has any advice for me whatsoever.
 *  [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * (@webjunk)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-admin-panel/#post-1694840)
 * If its file permissions you messed up:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions)
 * If you messed up during permalinks you could look at:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks)
 * If need be you could take out or add in the section starting with:
    IfModule 
   mod_rewrite.c
 * Then we can move on from there if still not working.
 *  Thread Starter [paranoid-onion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paranoid-onion/)
 * (@paranoid-onion)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-admin-panel/#post-1694970)
 * I am still a bit confused on where you want me to start. I read the permissions
   page.
 * This is what the error I’ve been having says:
 * “The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling
   the request.
    The script had an error or it did not produce any output. If there
   was an error, you should be able to see it in the error log.”
 * When I search for IfModule mod_rewrite.c I can’t find the file. Are you asking
   me to download wordpress again and replace the files one by one?
 *  [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * (@webjunk)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-admin-panel/#post-1694975)
 * You were supposed to do more an read the page on permissions. The idea is to 
   check the permissions of your files and directories.
 * ALso look in your main WP directory for a file called: error.log and if so then
   post the last few errors into pastbin.
 * But it sounds like you have the wrong permissions somewhere. And remember too
   much permissions is just as bad as too little. It must be the Correct permissions
   as per that page.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [webjunk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webjunk/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-admin-panel/#post-1694975)
 * Status: not resolved

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