Access forbidden 403 on wp-admin

  • Resolved Sai29180

    (@sai29180)


    9 years, 1 month ago

    Hello I have been charged to take care of a wordpress site and I wanted to migrate it to a local server. I have exported my files and database to a testfolder on xammp, ran a query to change my urls to localhost and updated wp-config with new database information.

    I can get access to the home page however when I try to go to my admin page, i get a,

    “Access forbidden!

    You don’t have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.”

    This is the first time I have experienced this so any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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  • Hello,
    probably .htaccess file is blocking you to access wp-admin page.
    Just rename htaccess file to .htaccess-old or something like that so you will have backup of that file.
    If this isn’t working it could be some security plugin. Check in plugins folder if you have wp security and rename it.

    Thread Starter Sai29180

    (@sai29180)

    Hi thank you for pointing me to .htaccess, I found that in my admin section, the .htaccess was set to deny from all, possibly for security reasons. I have changed it and now have access. thanks

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