Title: Error 403 Solution
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error 403 Solution

 *  [danielck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielck/)
 * (@danielck)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-solution/)
 * Not sure if there is a solution posted here as I did a search and could not find
   it.
    I faced the error 403 problem when I try to login into my WP admin. Did 
   a search at the forum and WIKI but found no solution. Look around my server and
   found the problem: .htaccess file located in my root directory: [http://soulworks.danielck.net](http://soulworks.danielck.net)
   The default file pointed is index.htm I deleted the .htaccess and I am able to
   access the admin interface. – hope this helps! 🙂

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 *  Thread Starter [danielck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielck/)
 * (@danielck)
 * [21 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-403-solution/#post-97430)
 * Alternatively, if you need a .htaccess file in your root directory, you can create
   another .htaccess file in
    <wp-admin> directory to point to the index.php file.
   This will overwrite the .htaccess rule in the root directory. ———————————- .htaccess
   if place in the root directory, will apply the rules to all the folders and sub-
   folders. Hence in my case, my root .htaccess points to index.htm file. in wp-
   admin directory, the same rules applys but index.htm is not presence hence cause
   the 403 error. 🙂

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