jimmyneutron8

Hi there,

There are a couple of things that could be causing this. First, does your server have permission to write to the .htaccess file? If not, WordPress will give you an error at the bottom of the permalinks page when you try to save changes.

If that isn’t the issue, the server configuration might need to be modified. The config file is most likely located in

/etc/apache2/sites-available/

There should be a section that looks something like this (yours might be a bit different):

<Directory /var/www/>
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride None
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all
</Directory>

The ‘AllowOverride’ parameter should be changed from ‘None’ to ‘All’. This will allow your .htaccess file to take effect.

This solution worked for me before. Let me know if it works for you.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by jimmyneutron8. Reason: formatting

You’re welcome. Glad to hear it worked!

Hi there,

I set up a WordPress installation with the settings you described above and I get a 403 error as well. Adding the following line between the Directory tags in the website’s config file seems to do the trick.

Require all granted

Let me know if it works for you. Good luck!

• This reply was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by jimmyneutron8. Reason: Formatting

To get to the wp-admin page, you simply put /wp-admin after your site’s host name. If you’re running a local installation, that host name could be your local IP address, or as mentioned above it could be “localhost”

If you try to visit “localhost/wp-admin” or “localhost:80/wp-admin” what is the result?