Forbidden Login

  • daynah

    (@daynah)


    21 years ago

    This is my second build, and the same thing has happened both times. I’m using an linux server, I had everything chmodded to 777 except weblogs.com which I had to 666, and I’m using 1.0.2. Anyway, it installed fine. Then it gave me the password and when I try to log in with it, it gives me a 403 forbidden error. Now, I know for a fact that this is my password. I screen shotted it, wrote it down, and later looked it up in my database.
    Anyone wanna help me? ??

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  • CeeJayCee

    (@ceejaycee)

    Go into the database and change it to something else.
    I’m using 1.0.1, so I’m not sure if passwords are encrypted in 1.0.2 – if they are just blank the password and login without one.

    Laughinglizard

    (@laughinglizard)

    @daynah: I agree with CeeJayCee. A 403 is a permission error.
    https://www.checkupdown.com/status/E403.html

    Moderator Matt Mullenweg

    (@matt)

    In most cases and hosting situations, normal PHP files should not be 777. I would contact your hosting provider to see what the correct settings are.

    Sushubh

    (@sushubh)

    yup, on one of the servers, the blog stopped working when i gave the index file 777 permissions. :O(

    I’m having the same problems. WP 1.0.2, everything installed fine until I get to the login. I even copied the password to make sure I didn’t get mixed up between 0 and O; but I get 403 permission denied. I tried various settings on the directory, neither 777 nor 755 did anything. I also tried clearing the browser cookies but that didn’t help either. I’m using Apache on Debian and made sure everything was up to date on the installs (stable branch) before installing WP. When I look in the WP database, I see that the password for the admin user is there as plain text – could that be the problem?

    I found the problem. My Apache distribution wasn’t recognizing the “index.php” as a file, and looking for a non-existent “index.html”. When I added index.php to the DirectoryIndex list it worked just fine with 755 directory permissions.

    I should add to my previous posting that the DirectoryIndex can be in httpd.conf or in .htaccess.

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