Error 404 – Directory not found.

  • Resolved Avuru

    (@avuru)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    Hey everyone!

    I’m a beginning wordpress user, and I’m facing a problem. I have managed to get myself a domain and other things that I need, and I’ve been trying to install wordpress. I have managed to get the wordpress file into my website with both net2ftp and filezilla, but here’s the problem: when i try to enter my site typing mysite.fi/wp-admin/install.php, i get the error of 404 – directory not found.

    I’ve tried to put the wordpress file into a public_html directory, move it around the site, still always the same issue. If i try to access my site normally with mysite.fi, I just get a 403 access denied error.

    I have also made myself a database ready for wordpress, and I’ve tried the same with both editing the wp-config.php file, or leaving it as it is when the wordpress is downloaded from the site, still same result.

    Any ideas what it might be? Also any tips are appreciated, like I said I am a beginner with this ??

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    404 indicates failure to communicate with the server.

    403 on install/403 forbidden: A 403 forbidden means that your browser isn’t able to load the scripts up because your server isn’t allowing it. This is a hard one to solve. Because anything could be blocking the server.
    – Most likely this is a server permissions/ownership issue, so ask your host what’s going on
    – Also, check your .htaccess files for anything strange.
    – Also try a full Manual Upgrade, to make sure all the WordPress files are there and correct.

    Thread Starter Avuru

    (@avuru)

    From the file that I got from my host it said that it could take 24-72 hours until the service is fully operational, so might have something to do with that because the 72 hours is gone in like 12 hours from now. I will try and do what you said, tho the customer service on my host is available on monday again so guess I’ll have to wait c: Thanks a lot though!

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    yes, it can take anything from 24 – 72 hours for DNS/nameserver records to fully propagate.

    I would try editing /etc/hosts file https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_%28file%29
    and adding the IP domain resolution.
    Could you provide the sites URL, domain?

    Thread Starter Avuru

    (@avuru)

    The URL is https://www.porvoontoimistopalvelu.fi

    I will look into the hosts file too!

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Clicking on the link, I get 403

    I get 403 too, look at your servers error_log for more info. Might be permission issues or rewrite issue https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_access.html#allow

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    I provided some info about 403 in my 1st reply and rpeat it here again:

    403 on install/403 forbidden: A 403 forbidden means that your browser isn’t able to load the scripts up because your server isn’t allowing it. This is a hard one to solve. Because anything could be blocking the server.
    – Most likely this is a server permissions/ownership issue, so ask your host what’s going on
    – Also, check your .htaccess files for anything strange.
    – Also try a full Manual Upgrade, to make sure all the WordPress files are there and correct.

    I just encountered the same error.
    In the error_log I had the following info
    [Sun May 25 18:53:51 2014] [error] [client ::1] Options FollowSymLinks or SymLinksIfOwnerMatch is off which implies that RewriteRule directive is forbidden: /Users/mike/Sites/wp/wp-admin/options-permalink.php, referer: https://localhost/wp/wp-admin/options-permalink.php

    So I added Options +FollowSymlinks to my .htaccess and solved the issue.

    Thread Starter Avuru

    (@avuru)

    Thank you so much for the answers so far!

    I will call to my host tomorrow when the client service is available to ask if there are any problems.

    On the .htaccess file, where can i find it? I tried to look for it, and may well be that I missed it, but didn’t find it.

    It should be in the root
    https://i.imgur.com/ZndTkXM.png
    As you connect with a FTP client, the client might hide the files
    https://i.imgur.com/drjcRva.png

    Thread Starter Avuru

    (@avuru)

    I found the .htaccess file. Or more like did not find it, but I managed to get it there. And I added the line of text you told me, still nothing.

    BUT I called my host, and he said that there were some issues, and they are fixing it as we speak. Within the day the site should work as intended.

    Thread Starter Avuru

    (@avuru)

    The call with the issue fixed the issue, and now I am working on the site!

    Thank you so much for the help, really appreciate it!

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    Glad to hear that ??

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