Title: Forbidden : admin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Forbidden : admin

 *  [wquatan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wquatan/)
 * (@wquatan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-admin/)
 * I’m a firsttime WordPress user !
 * I installed 202
    – the first time I installed, I didn’t receive the 2nd part 
   of the table-creation screen (the one with the password). Removed the tables 
   and re-installed, so far good this time – when I try to login with the given 
   admin+password, I get an error message ” Forbidden : You don’t have permission
   to access /wordpress/wp-admin/ on this server”
 * Any ideas what might be happening ?
 * Thanks

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 *  [andee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/andee/)
 * (@andee)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-admin/#post-354447)
 * I have exactly the same issue here. Any suggestions appreciated.
 *  Thread Starter [wquatan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wquatan/)
 * (@wquatan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-admin/#post-354622)
 * No suggestions cq solution ?
 *  Thread Starter [wquatan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wquatan/)
 * (@wquatan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-admin/#post-354635)
 * Seems to be a difficult problem.
    Are there any other support-forums for WP around?
 * I can’t give any more information than what I gave in the first post. I’m completely
   stuck and have no clue how to proceed. I really wouldn’t like to give up WP and
   go for another product, but I don’t have much options
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-admin/#post-354636)
 * The answer might be that your host does not have the server setup so look for‘
   index.php’ as a valid file – so causeing that error.
 * Ask them to check that index.php IS a valid file and if not to make the change.
   It’s a trivial change for them to make.
 * Failing that, who is your webhost?
 *  Thread Starter [wquatan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wquatan/)
 * (@wquatan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-admin/#post-354637)
 * Hi podz, thank you for the reply
 * It’s not hosted with a provider, actually everything is on my own server (Win2000Server
   + Apache 2.0.55 + PHP 5.1.2 + MySQL 5.0.18)
    On the same configuration I have
   also phpBB2 running. Is this enough to clarify the index.php issue you’re referring
   to ?
 *  Thread Starter [wquatan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wquatan/)
 * (@wquatan)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-admin/#post-354653)
 * I definitely need to go for another product, or am I in the wrong forum ? I saw
   somewhere a post concerning WordPress.org and WordPress.com
 * Thanks
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-admin/#post-354654)
 * … and, after looking at Podz’s response, did you confirm that “index.php” is 
   configured as a default page with your apache install?
 * Although we don’t offer Apache support, you probably want to check your httpd.
   conf to see what value is specified for “DirectoryIndex”.

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 * [forbidden](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/forbidden/)
 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 7 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/forbidden-admin/#post-354654)
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