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Dan Ridley
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Dan Ridley
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Posted by Dan Ridley
Dan Ridley
Courses Plus Student 14,839 Points

403 Forbidden when trying to access /WP-ADMIN

Hey guys,

I have hit a road block. I just moved my custom theme and Wordpress site to a live server and when I try to access my /wp-admin backend, I get a 403 forbidden message. Please help.

Dan

3 Answers

Dan Ridley
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Dan Ridley
Courses Plus Student 14,839 Points
Dan Ridley
Dan Ridley
Courses Plus Student 14,839 Points

I solved the problem. Turns out that my FTP software didn't upload all the necessary files

Chris Dziewa
Chris Dziewa
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Chris Dziewa
Chris Dziewa
17,781 Points

I had a similar issue with Filezilla and WordPress.

Dino Paškvan
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Dino Paškvan
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Dino Paškvan
Dino Paškvan
Courses Plus Student 44,108 Points

Can you FTP to your host and check the permissions on the wp-login.php file? I believe they should be 644, but due to massive attacks on WP installations, many hosts have tools that automatically set permissions for that file to 000 to avoid attacks.