Wordpress 403 404 Errors You don t have permission to access wp-admin themes php on this server

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Some background   I setup six blogs this week  all using Wordpress 2 92  installed with Fantastico on a baby croc plan with Hostgator   I used the same theme  heatmap 2 5 4  and plugins for each blog   They were all up and running  no issues at all   I go to create a new blog this morning  using the same setup  and when I try to change the theme settings  I get the following error   Forbidden  You don t have permission to access  wp-admin themes php on this server   Additionally  a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request   Apache 2 2 15  Unix  mod ssl 2 2 15 OpenSSL 0 9 8n DAV 2 mod fcgid 2 3 5 mod auth passthrough 2 1 mod bwlimited 1 4 FrontPage 5 0 2 2635 Server at http   www mydomain com Port 80   I tried uninstalling WP and doing a clean install  still the same issue with a clean installation   So I went back and checked the six other blogs that I had setup over the last week or so  and they are also now giving me 403 or 404 errors when trying to change theme settings  and everytime there s an error it points to either themes php or functions php  At this point I m at my wits end trying to figure out what the problem is  Hostgator support looked at it and thought maybe it was a permissions issue but they reset those and I m still having the problem   At first I thought the problem might have been related to a plugin I recently installed on the previous six blogs that morning  ByREV Fix Missed Shedule Plugin  to deal with a missed schedule bug with WP 2 92  and that maybe that had mucked things up  But then I checked a blog I built months ago  also using the same theme and plugins  and now it too is also encountering the same problem   Any ideas  I tried deleting my htaccess  uploading a blank one  uploading one with this snippet I found on the hostgator forum     BEGIN WordPress  lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt  RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule    index php  L   lt  IfModule gt     END WordPress   Nothing has worked  I still get 403 or 404 errors everytime  Everything was working perfectly yesterday so I know this setup DOES WORK  I ve just mucked something up somewhere and I m clueless what it is   I read a related thread here and tried chmoding the wp-content folder to 0755 and still having the issue   Any thoughts  Thanks

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You re in luck bud   I had the same issue but had more tech knowledge on the matter and was able to determine that it was a mod sec issue that hostgator has to fix whitelist on their own  You cannot do it yourself  Simply ask the hostgator tech to check mod sec settings on your server   Enjoy your fixed issue  D

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Hopefully people will find this answer as there are many  many posts about this on the web  Many people suggested it was an  htaccess problem  and for me it was  However  I had been looking in the  htaccess in the root  not in the  htaccess in the wp-admin folder  Normally  I work on this site in particular through terminal services  so when it booted me and I couldn t log back in  I was trying to access it from my home computer  and it s IP    Silly me forgot the IP restriction I had placed in the wp-admin  htaccess file   AuthName  Protected  AuthType Basic  lt Limit GET POST gt  order deny allow deny from all allow from 11 11 11 11  lt  Limit gt     If you have something like this in your wp-admin  htaccess files  that would easily explain why all the sites you work on ceased to function at the same time  Internet providers occasionally rotate IPs so that nobody is running a server from home without paying for it

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Did you try    lt Directory  path to your wp-admin gt  Order allow deny Allow from all  lt  Directory gt

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We found the asnwer of at techieshelp  its the htaccess thats the issue     http   www techieshelp com you-don E2 80 99t-have-permission-to-access-wp-adminpost-php-on-this-server

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I had the same problem  but nothing above worked   try a really simple solution     Back up your  htaccess file  Delete it from your root directory  Then try accessing those directories  Its likely that whatever rewrite conditions you had in your file were causing those access issues  The index page should be picked up automatically on most hosts   P

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A few years late  but I have a solution for the most recent version of WordPress  which has this same issue  WordPress-generated  htaccess files break sites  reuslting in 403 Forbidden error messages   Here s that it looks like when WordPress creates it     BEGIN WordPress  lt IfModule mod rewrite c gt  RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteRule  index  php  -  L  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule    index php  L   lt  IfModule gt     END WordPress   The problem is that the  conditional doesn t work  It doesn t work because the module it s looking for isn t  c  it s  so  I think this is a platform-specific  or configuration-specific issue  where Mac OS and Lunix Apache installations are set up for  so AKA  shared-object  modules  Looking for a  c module shouldn t break the conditional  I think that s a bug  but it s the issue   Simply change the mod rewrite c to mod rewrite so and you re all set to go     BEGIN WordPress  lt IfModule mod rewrite so gt  RewriteEngine On RewriteBase   RewriteRule  index  php  -  L  RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -f RewriteCond   REQUEST FILENAME   -d RewriteRule    index php  L   lt  IfModule gt     END WordPress

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Just to follow up  problem solved  I mentioned mod sec settings for my server as being the possible culprit as suggested and they were able to fix this issue   Here s what the tech agent said to tell them when you go to support      Just let them know you need the rule   340163 whitelisted for domain com as   its hitting a mod sec rule    Apparently you will need to do this for each domain that is having the issue  but it works   Thanks for all the suggestions everyone

User · Answer

The first error you re getting - permissions - is the most indicative  Bump wp-content and wp-admin to 777 and try it  and if it works  then change them both back to 755 and see if it still works  What are you using to change folder permissions  An FTP client

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Try to disable ModSecurity from your cPanel   Log into your cPanel  Find the category  Security   There you can find ModSecurity link Click on it and disable it for the domain you are facing the 403 error   Some 403 errors can be solved by this method too  Go to the wordpress dashboard  settings permalink and just click save    Hope this helped

[wordpress] Wordpress 403/404 Errors: You don't have permission to access /wp-admin/themes.php on this server

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