Cómo corregir el error 403 Forbidden en WordPress

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1. Gary Parker

   None of these fix my problem as it is one page and the only way i could fix it was to rename the permalink, The page in trouble is https://example.com/blog/ and the only way i could fix it was to change it to /blog2/, any ideas?

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2. Michael

   Please somebody help me. I have two websites on the same host. I just added a third addon domain recently and installed wordpress to it through the softaculous installer.

   The problem is not from wordpress, and other websites on the same host is accessible.

   Please help.

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3. Andreas Johansson

   I hade one page Forbiden 403 and tryied all the steps. And now i dont have permission to login wp-admin on my site?

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Hey Andreas,

     Please see our WordPress troubleshooting guide. It will help you find out the issue and then you can fix it.

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4. Marcus

   It worked like magic

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5. Juliet Julius

   Thank you so much for this article. My problem was a corrupted htaccess file. My website is now working fine.

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6. Aleli Sanchez Mendez

   I still having this problem. I tried all the steps. The problem began when I installed the WooCommerce plugin in my Wordpress Site. Now in my wordpress y receive a 403 Forbidden and in my other site, without wordpress i recieived a 502 Bad Gateway error.

   Please someone can help me?

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7. Scott Munson

   I discovered – after all else failed and many hours spent, that at one time (but no longer) I used Bullet Proof security. It left a stray .htaccess file in my wp-admin folder – THAT, was causing the 403 error for me. ARGH!

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   • WPBeginner Support

     Hey Scott,

     Thanks for sharing, glad you found the solution

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8. joshua jenish zibhu

   how i solve this probkem…. in windows 10……

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9. john

   Thank you, it worked for me.

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10. Oluwaseun

    Thanks!
    changing file permission works for me.

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11. Yogesh

    Thanks a ton. Deleting .htaccess worked for me.

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12. JU

    There has to be a fourth step. None of these steps applied. The plugins weren’t the cause. The .htaccess file wasn’t the cause. All the permissions in all files and folders are set to the correct numerical values.

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13. Sendhil Kumar S K

    Hi Friends, One Easy step will make You free from the existing problem.

    1. Go to CPanel of Your Domain

    2. Click to Expand public_html folder present at the extreme left of the screen.

    3. Double click on wp folder present on the write side of the screen

    4. Copy All files & Folders inside the wp folder

    5. Move all the files & folders inside the wp folder to UP ONE LEVEL

    6. Now All files & Folders are out of WP folder, hence WP folder is empty, come one level up & delete the empty WP folder

    7. Now go to browser & type your domain_name.com, PERFEFETLY it will be WORKING

    All the Best…if you have doubts regarding this mail me to

    Also if time permits visit my site
    Thank You All

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14. Sergio Casabona

    Hi, there! Thanks for this article!
    I got this error, so I access with my ftp and deleted .htaccess file. I’m now able to access my dashboard. But when I go to settings and save again as you say, the error 403 comes back. What can I do?
    Thank you, guys!

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15. Josh Allen

    What if I had a dedicated server, and its happening to all 43 of my sites…I just did some kind of WHM update on Bluehost, then it happened….Ive been waiting for an hour to talk to bluehost.

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    • Ronald

      Josh –

      I had a similar thing happening to me here. “All of a sudden” none of my sites worked anymore.

      I am hosting the sites on my own MacMini, running OS-X Server. After a night of trouble-shooting, I eventually found out that the root cause was me enabling the FTP server in OS-X Server. In there, I set folder permissions for the website root folder for “Everyone Else” to “None” (seemed a bit tricky to give everyone Read access to my sites!). Apparently one is also blocking the _www user access to the websites then…

      After I changed this back to “Read Only”, my sites started working again… Pffff.

      I’m now looking for a permanent solution, which is not: “Close my firewall for FTP traffic.

      Hope this helps,
      Ronald

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16. Krishna Patel

    This post saved my life! I can’t thank you enough for this helpful information but.. thanks a million

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17. shah faisal

    You don’t have permission to access /loading.php on this server.
    Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

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18. James

    The file permission option fixed it, thanks a lot.

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19. gab

    I am getting the 403 error for my page and cannot even login into WordPress because of it… I don’t know how to fix it and don’t see anyone with the same issue.

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20. Reshan

    Hi. My Wordpress is handled by the hosting company itself. So I dont have root access. How can I solve this problem?

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Hi Reshan,

      Please contact your hosting company. They will be able to fix it for you.

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21. Prince

    Thank you. You helped me solved my problem.

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22. Rafael Hernandez-Padilla

    Thank you, the article resolved the issue I was having on my site.

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23. Yves

    Same problem here, and ftp same result… checked in Cpanel and noticed my maindir permissions was 0000 , changed to 0755 and was fixed

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24. Mimi

    In my case, I had my website for 4 years and all of a sudden today I got this error although I did not touch the files or change any permissions. I logged into the control panel and noticed that for some reason the index.php file was missing from the Wordpress root folder. I downloaded a new copy of Wordpress and copied the index.php file on to the root folder of my Wordpress website and the website came back!
    So perhaps if anyone is getting the same error, please double check that you have an index.php or index.html file. I hope that helps.

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    • Cian

      Lifesaver – thank you! This worked for me also.

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    • justin

      Ditto…no idea why/how but the index.php disappeared while I was working on a project…I was saved a load of hassle by an automatic backup where the index still existed.

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    • Nick

      Thanks Mimi! This worked for me while the solutions in the article didn’t. In my case, the index.php file wasn’t actually missing but when I replaced the one that was there with a fresh one the site started working again so I guess it was corrupted or had some kind of other problem.

      My specific error message did also mention the index.php file so that also makes sense:

      Forbidden
      You don’t have permission to access /index.php on this server.

      Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

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25. AMar pal

    Help me my website is down.I tried all the given solutions but nothing worked…

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    • Edgar

      Nothing worked for me until I added “Options +FollowSymLinks” (without the quotes) above “RewriteEngine On”.

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26. Doni

    I did all three possible causing 403 error fixing that you informed but it still produced the error. By the way i wanted to edit footer template but when i saved / updated file it produced “403 Forbidden Access to this resource on the server is denied!”

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    • Mimi

      This is a reply to your comment on wpbegginer.com (comment quoted below)
      I am not sure if you were able to resolve your problem but I would like to let you know that I got the same error today and I found that the problem was a missing index.php file from the root folder of my website.

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      “I did all three possible causing 403 error fixing that you informed but it still produced the error. By the way i wanted to edit footer template but when i saved / updated file it produced “403 Forbidden Access to this resource on the server is denied!””

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27. Alexandra

    Hello,

    I need help, while trying install wordpress with mamp, after i did everything what i supposed to do, it showed me this error :
    ‘Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access /mysite on this server.
    Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.’

    Please help me!

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28. Vasil

    Hello guys.

    Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access /shop/ on this server.

    I’ve tried everything and doesn’t work.
    if someone can help would be great thank you.

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29. KimD

    Thanks. Great article. To fix my problem I had to do a slight variant on what was written. When I looked I found that I had two htaccess files, one in the root directory and another in the wp-admin directory. I regained access to my site by renaming the htaccess file in the wp-admin directory.

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    • Alex

      So glad you posted this, this was my exact issue! Thanks!

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30. Kingsley Felix

    Hello;

    Mine happens when i want to save changes of an article by a deleted admin user

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31. Steve

    I have a user who is getting the following 403 when he tries to leave a comment:

    403 Forbidden Error Page

    If you arrived here due to a search or clicking on a link click your Browser’s back button to return to the previous page. Thank you.

    IP Address: xxx.xx.xx.xx” (his actual IP address shows up here)

    What could be wrong?

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32. David

    my problem is in .htaccess File. the passage saves my site. Thanks so much

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      You are welcome

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33. Omotayo Adeoye

    Hi,
    I get a ‘Forbidden’ on the wp-admin page of my website. It doesn’t say error 403 – forbidden; it just says forbidden”.

    I have re-installed wordpress, checked file permissions, checked htpaccess, deactivated all plugins etc. yet it doesn’t work.

    Pls what can i do!

    Thanks a lot.

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34. Ricardo

    Hi! When I share my website link to facebook, the title is 403 Forbidden. Directly on my website I didn’t saw any kind of 403 forbidden message. I tried a lot of advises I found, as removing .htaccess file, desactivating all the plugins and also checked permissions. I tried to debug at facebook debugger, but the informations doesn’t change. Anyone can help me to fix this problem?

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    • Mukesh Sharma

      Hello Ricardo,

      send me your website link. I can help.

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35. Harney Cercado

    Awesome! You’re a life saver!
    Thanks!

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36. Shane

    This was very helpful, thank you guys very much , as we say in Jamaica “Respect”

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37. Javier Gomez

    I have many errors 403 with my images, I will take your advice thanks for the information

    An apology for my bad english

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38. Christopher Sowerby

    Hi. my problem is that i can logout from the backend dashboard but i cant logout from the front end (using the bar at the top).

    It seems that the nonce in the logout url is different when on the backend. Do you know why this could be? i have cleared everything out of my functions.php but it still happens.

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39. Rameez Ramzan

    Hi,

    I am newbie in WordPress and Currently I am facing some problem while login WordPress Dashboard.
    It’s showing 403 forbidden errors while login but on the other side my friend open similar site on their internet then its working correctly. Kindly let me know

    Thanks,

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40. Pascal

    Thank you for this great post! I resolved my 403 error!!!

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41. Erik Kubica

    I have similar issue, as a company on our dev server we are running much wordpress sites where to only 1 WP site i started to get 403 and only on wp-admin. 2 Days before i have lived elsewhere when it worked.

    foo.bar/somewebsite/* -> 200 OK
    foo.bar/somewebsite/wp-admin -> rediret to wp-login.php -> 403 err

    foo.bar/somewebsite2/* -> 200 OK
    foo.bar/somewebsite2/wp-admin -> rediret -> 200 OK

    Ftp to foo.bar is ok, ssh to foo.bar is ok.

    On “somewebsite” the WP admin is blocked only for me (all browsers, all existing incognito modes, all cache cleared incl. cookies….). For all people i have asked to try it worked without any problems.

    There is nothing wrong with htaccess, wordfence was disabled from ftp (also checked the DB if there is any ban to my IP). checked the main apache2 access log over ssh where i see the 403 record.

    Any idea what can be wrong?

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42. Vinish Chaudhary

    Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

    Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    and none of above method work on this error my cpanel not showing. I read the whole article
    plz, help me solve this.
    thanks

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Please try these troubleshooting tips if nothing works then contact your WordPress hosting provider.

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43. Dewlance

    Uhh! Wordpress wp-admin 403 error is really time killing.

    I try your all tricks but still getting a error. Going to change wp-admin folder with fresh files of wp-admin files.

    Maybe it will help me or other option is apache configuration or poorly mod_security configuration.

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44. Greg

    We work with WordPress everyday and recently encountered the 403 error. It was the file permissions and htaccess file that was reconfigured due to one of the security plugins. Your post on the matter was very helpful. Thanks for taking the time to post it.

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Glad you found it helpful

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45. zulfiqar ali

    dear sir my site name is my site give me error like

    Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access / on this server.

    Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

    and non of above method work on this error my cpane not showing any files in file explorer and also not connecting via FTP client.. i read whole article
    plz help me solve this..
    thanks

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46. Lindani

    I cant my thinks now because of this forbidden error help please

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47. hardik

    Hi i really impress with your suggestion thanks u so much i have solve my error

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48. Oliver

    Hi, we have also been experiencing a 403 error. It first started happening when I tried to update the wp-core to 4.5. Ever since we get a 403 about once a day. I have done everything that I can think of to rectify the issue; reverted to a back-up of the site previous to the update; deactivated all plugins; checked file permissions; contacted hosts to see if our IP addresses were blacklisted; deleted .htaccess; changed theme to default 2016 the only thing that works when getting a 403 is to turn off the router wait for the IP to change and then we can access again. So it would seem to be an IP issue but I cannot find where this is IP blockage is.

    Does anybody know of any other place where an IP blacklist maybe?

    Thanks.

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49. Barbara Puchala

    We just had this error. A outside web designer was creating a Wordpress site for us and kept getting the 403 error.
    Turns out our hosting company, as part of its security measures, has its servers block any attempt to sign in with the user name ‘Admin’. I know, you would think he would know better. A change to the user name was all that was needed.

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50. george

    your typo
    [due to a poorly configured security plugins]
    due to a poorly configured security plugin

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    • WPBeginner Support

      Thanks, we have fixed it.

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