Title: Subdomain Wp-admin not working
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Subdomain Wp-admin not working

 *  [Halliwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halliwell/)
 * (@halliwell)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdomain-wp-admin-not-working/)
 * Hello everyone!
 * First, thank you for taking the time to check my issue!
 * Some days ago, I decided to remodelate all my website layout, and for that, I
   followed some tutorials online on how to get rid of some things on cPanel… Manually.
 * However, I guess that when we aren’t 100% sure of what we are doing, we end up
   screwing up.
 * I did remodelate my website, and it works fine as in that time I unistalled and
   installed again wordpress and all that.
 * However, I went to check my subdomain and it seems all great, it works as a normal
   user… but now, when I tried to access the wp-admin… it’s nor working. I mean,
   it comes up the wp-admin page but I entered the username and password and it 
   says it’s invalid. Then, I closed and tried to access wp-admin and instead of
   the normal credentials page, it appears an error page of the subdomain saying:“
   Oops! That page can’t be found.
 * It looks like nothing was found at this location. Maybe try one of the links 
   below or a search?”
 * I guess I might have deleted some file I shouldn’t ?
 * Does anyone know how to solve it?
 * Thanks!

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 *  [Haroon Q. Raja](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hqraja/)
 * (@hqraja)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdomain-wp-admin-not-working/#post-7010166)
 * Hello,
 * It’s not a good idea to edit or remove any of your core WordPress files when 
   making changes to your website, as it can (and mostly does) result in breaking
   many important features. However, there is a solution.
 * Try [downloading WordPress](https://wordpress.org/download/) again, access your
   server via [SFTP or FTP](https://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients), or a file 
   manager in your hosting account’s control panel, and delete then replace your
   copies of everything except the `wp-config.php` file and the `/wp-content/` directory
   with fresh copies from the download. This will effectively replace all of your
   core files without damaging your content and settings.
 * Note that when replacing these existing files with fresh ones, it’s a good idea
   to delete the original files first before uploading the fresh copies.
 * Hope it helps.
 *  Thread Starter [Halliwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halliwell/)
 * (@halliwell)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdomain-wp-admin-not-working/#post-7010255)
 * Hey,
 * Thanks for the information! Yes, it wasn’t smart to delete some files…
 * I did exactly what you told me and now it appears the WP-ADMIN page but it keeps
   saying that my username and password are incorrect. I did “lost password” however
   it treats me like a normal user and not “forgot admin password”….
 * Not sure what to do after this?
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [Halliwell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/halliwell/)
 * (@halliwell)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdomain-wp-admin-not-working/#post-7010279)
 * I contacted my hosting service and they solved the problem, thank you anyway 
   for the help!! 🙂
 *  [felixrami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felixrami/)
 * (@felixrami)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdomain-wp-admin-not-working/#post-7010475)
 * I installed it in the root with subdomains basis. If you go to main site it works.
   If you go to wp-admin in a subdomain gets 404 Error. it looks as if WP doesn´
   t installed in subdomain.
 * I get the DNS wildcard. It resolves when I type a ping at by instante bannermatik.
   solomayoristas.net but if you type bannermatik.solomayoristas.net/wp-admin the
   server is not found.
 * **I don´t know if it is a WP issue or Server misconfigured issue**
 * Thanks a lot.,
    felixr

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 * [20q2016](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/20q2016/)
 * [404-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/404-error/)
 * [credentials](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/credentials/)
 * [subdomain](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/subdomain/)
 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)

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 * Last reply from: [felixrami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/felixrami/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/subdomain-wp-admin-not-working/#post-7010475)
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