The options.php file inside wp-admin which was working fine few days ago is now giving me 403 error suddenly. There was no change made and it gives me this error out of nowhere.
Here are few things I tried
Checking and regenerating .htaccess file.
Checking file permissions(wp-admin has 755 and options.php has 644) and ownership details which all seemed to be fine.
Deactivating and activating plugins one by one.
Checked user permissions in wordpress database. I made sure to have administrator role.
None of these helped me resolve the issue. It would be of great help if something can be suggested on solving this issue.
Note that I'm able to access other files within wp-admin folder except for options.php, Thanks.
My core wordpress files got hacked because of a plug in. My site started giving malicious redirects.
While trying to edit wp-config.php, my site went fully offline. I tried a full manual reinstall because of this and I needed new core files anyway. My site is still not online. I have the database, database password, and username in wp-config.php. Also, I have everything in the document root for the correct domain. Maybe there is some conflict between the two domains with my host?
Does anybody know what might be causing this 404. I can't get access to the dashboard.
I got a backup before doing anything and I downloaded wp-content. The original database is still available.
I tried an automated install through cpanel with fresh everything and this would not get me to a dashboard.
Well, 404 error is not because you can't connect to your database. You should see Database connection error message if database is the problem. Did you edit .htaccess file maybe? You can try to remove everything there and put default one for Wordpress.
May be your site compromised. Deactivate the plugins using the file manager provided by your host and rename wp-content/plugins to wp-content/plugins-old, also deactivate the theme or rename the wp-admin folder on root directory and then take a try to login. Also turn on the debugger.
Running an instance of Bitnami Wordpress on AWS Lightsail. Getting the following screen when trying to activate a Wordpress theme (JobCareer):
UPDATE #1 Turned on debug and saw the error information in the above screenshot.
Other themes and plugins I have tested all installed and activate without issue, so it's probably something specific to this theme.
I have made sure that define('FS_METHOD','direct'); is set inside wp-config.php file.
The wp-content folder and sub-folders/files are all chown to bitnami user and have the appropriate permissions (folder:755 & files:644).
At a loss as to what else to try. Thanks for any help you can provide! :)
It's definitely a files & directories permission issue. Move the define('FS_METHOD','direct'); line back to where it was (that change is causing a different error).
The 'www-data' user is the default user for Apache (and other HTTP servers?), in case you didn't know.
After reading any kind of solution, i need your help to solve my problem.
Magento 2.1.2, PHP7, Ubuntu. Fresh install, created new theme. When i switch to the new theme, this error appears even in frontend that in backend (backend shouldn't be a problem!):
Frontend error
Backend error
Already tried:
Switch back to original template
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
Set developer mode
var/cache and pub/static (less then .htaccess) cleaned
Ownership check (magento_user:www-data for all files), permissions ok
I think it's just amazing! I can understand any problem, but this is really strange. Why should the backend be affected by this problem? Why, even if i set mode developer, magento 2 tries to get some "static/_cache" CSS file?
Thanks
I hope, you have already found the solution for your issue but it
might be useful for future surfers.
The path for the frontend compilation in admin panel is given below:
Stores > Configuration > ADVANCED > Developer > Front-end development workflow
But, if there is an error in Backend panel as well then the listed issue can be resolved by running the update query in the database.
update core_config_data
set value='server_side_compilation'
where path = 'dev/front_end_development_workflow/type';
I clicked on the 'Update WordPress' link in the admin dashboard of my WordPress site, and I am getting this error:
"The file 'wp-config.php' already exists. If you need to reset any of the
configuration items in this file, please delete it first. You may try installing now."
When I try to click the "installing now" link, it seems that WordPress is installing fresh. I want to keep all of the content of my WordPress installation.
I have tried to change the name of the wp-config.php file but that didn't do anything.
Is just a browser cache.
On first URL load, you are redirected from domain.ext to domain.ext/wp-admin/setup-config.php
If you are on Chrome, just open the developers console, go to "Network" tab. Reload the page and right click anywhere in the console, and hit "Clear browser cache".
Now refresh again and you will see your website
I ran into this same issue while I was transferring a site. The issue ended up being with the .htaccess file. I fixed it by resetting my permalinks. There may be other causes to this issue but this worked for me:
Click on General => Permalinks
Click Save Changes (to reset permalinks)
Try to display the website first on the incognito tab. If it works correctly, clear the browser cache.
Once the page refresh has been completed, the website will appear.
You can use the following shortcuts to clear the browser cache.
Windows: Ctrl + F5
Mac OS: CMD + Shift + R
This usually happens when you use an old version of Wordpress files or old database, and you use partly new files of Wordpress.
All you need to do is to delete all WP files and install a fresh Wordpress (new files unzipped from a new version of Wordpress) and use an empty database.
If you're planning to migrate or move from another website, you should use the export/import function built in wordpress.
he file wp-config.php already exists. If you need to reset any of the configuration items in this file, please delete it first. You may try installing now.
Answer:- Please Clear Your browser's cache.
Did I miss the party?
Today I have a problem like what you experienced 5 years ago. The solution is: Remove all caching plugins (Cloudflare, Jetpack, Litespeed).
Maybe you could try to delete 'wp-config.php' file, or take a backup of this file in different folder and then try again.
If you are using bluehost and did not do the one click install :
I solved this problem by deleting the default error pages 404.php 500.php etc...
I do not know why exactly this was causing this issue... Sorry for the sloppy answer but tried clearing cache and recreating the .htaccess file it didn't work.
I removed the added spaces that the Wordpress's own web 'easy installer' created in the wp-config.php file to help me out.
Guess the Wordpress's own wp-config.php ?checker? isn't compatible with Wordpress's own installer. Wow.
Once the added spaces were removed, site comes up fine. I simply modeled the spacing that is in the wp-config-sample.php file.
Because you just installed wp.
Just hit ctrl+F5 done!!!
More likely it is cache issue and this error comes when we try to install one Wordpress inside of another sub folder of the cpanel in the same Wordpress installation and it will be mostly resolved when you try to check it in the private window or another browser
For me it was file permission set to 666 changing it to 664 worked.
If someone is still for a solution.
This happened to me on an existing site while trying to update.
the problem was following line in wp-config.php near the end.
/** Sets up WordPress vars and included files. */
require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-admin/setup-config.php');
Removing this fixed the problem.
Hope this helps.
RESOLVED: I had the same problem. post hack situation on other account, shared hosting and server NUKED. Luckily I had the backup files from one of the WP plugins but the main page didnt load, I could only go to 404 and from there to other pages but not main page, the error was wp-config eists...install...blah blah blah.....so I tried everything, multiple re-installs, changed the wp_prefix as per previous install on the fresh install and nothing helped, even ordered paid support from the backup plugin developer as I was sure that it fooked because I had Opencart also installed there but the backup was intended for WP only, my web developer also did something, perhaps removed the OC bits from DB, but thank god i managed to resolve it on my own(and justhost),. so I contacted the justhost for the SECOND TIME and they told me that the account is on VARNISH i.e. some sort of automated cache limit, so I told them to take it off and they wanted to know what have I done to reduce the LOAD to the server, so I told this and that and two seconds later everything loaded perfectly. took me about 20 hours to get main page loading, plus probably it will take 10 hours for fine tuning of the site. anyway if you contact jour host make sure you ask them if they are not blocking cahce as the first time I got in contact they couldnt help me.
I also meet with same error and Mr Pierre R is right its just a cache. Just clear your cache or check in private window. All fine.
if someone have still this error..
goto->admin->setup.php (delete this file error will be solve)
hope this will help.