Title: 404 error when trying access wp-admin Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # 404 error when trying access wp-admin * [joekazlauskas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joekazlauskas/) * (@joekazlauskas) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/) * I get a 404 error when I try and access the admin area. [http://www.mallentry.com/marketing/wp-admin](http://www.mallentry.com/marketing/wp-admin) * I do no get the request for user and password. I get a 404 error. * I have a second site which does the same thing. * [http://www.mallentry.com/sportsbetting/wp-admin](http://www.mallentry.com/sportsbetting/wp-admin) * thanks * joekazlauskas [kazlauskasj@yahoo.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/kazlauskasj@yahoo.com?output_format=md) Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303081) * Seeing as your style sheet gets a 404 * [http://mallentry.com/marketing/wp-content/themes/default/style.css](http://mallentry.com/marketing/wp-content/themes/default/style.css) * I think you didn’t install wordpress where you think you did. * Go in via SSH or FTP and make sure that your wordpress install is in marketing, and not another subfolder. * Thread Starter [joekazlauskas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joekazlauskas/) * (@joekazlauskas) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303084) * the word press install is in the subfolder marketing. * [http://www.mallentry.com/marketing](http://www.mallentry.com/marketing) will give me an unformatted word press template. * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303109) * Right because it can’t find [http://mallentry.com/marketing/wp-content](http://mallentry.com/marketing/wp-content) * Can you go in with shell or FTP and check that folder is there under /marketing? * Thread Starter [joekazlauskas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joekazlauskas/) * (@joekazlauskas) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303117) * yes it is, as is wp-includes * wp-content has plugins,themes,uploads in the folder * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303120) * What are your permissions set to? * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions) * Thread Starter [joekazlauskas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joekazlauskas/) * (@joekazlauskas) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303134) * 755 * Thread Starter [joekazlauskas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joekazlauskas/) * (@joekazlauskas) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303139) * correction * 755 at file folder level 644 inside the file folders * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303158) * Are the folders owned by ‘you’? * Other than that, I’m not sure why it can’t see the folders… But that’s what’s causing this. * Thread Starter [joekazlauskas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joekazlauskas/) * (@joekazlauskas) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303176) * I’m not sure I know what you mean by owned? However my host is hostgator, I created using fatastico delux in the word press module. Everything is pretty automatic to get it installed. I have other wp sites working from earlier versions on mallentry. com. In any event how do I correct the problem? * thanks * joe k * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303184) * File ownership means which computer account ‘owns’ the files. You can get details here: [http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/filepermissions.html](http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/filepermissions.html) * Basically when you look at a file, it should tell you permissions and a ‘name’ like this: * ``` Example.org: /home/www/$ ls -l total 2 drwxr-xr-x 3 ipstenu ipstenu 80 2005-09-20 21:37 directory -rw-r----- 1 ipstenu ipstenu 8187 2005-09-19 13:35 file -rwxr-xr-x 1 ipstenu ipstenu 10348 2005-07-17 20:31 otherfile ``` * The two ipstenus are me (user) and my group. Which isn’t a big deal, don’t worry 😉 * Just sometimes things get weird when they’re installed by Fantastico and ‘nobody’ ends up owning files, which causes problems. * [call2shain](https://wordpress.org/support/users/call2shain/) * (@call2shain) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303411) * Well try this it will work 100% * [http://yourdomain.com/wp-login](http://yourdomain.com/wp-login) don’t use wp- admin * wp-admin has been replaced with wp-login in latest version of wordpress * Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/) * (@ipstenu) * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303415) * wp-login is a redirect. wp-admin is a folder and should still work with any site, even with pretty permalinks turned off. * And either way, that ISN’T the issue. The install is looking for the wp-* folders under /marketing and can’t find ’em. * Watch, go to [http://mallentry.com/marketing/wp-login](http://mallentry.com/marketing/wp-login) and see the 404. * Best guess at this point is either the files aren’t owned right or something in .htaccess is munching it all. * Is there an .htaccess in the root of mallentry? The folder one up from marketing etc? * [creativewebsites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativewebsites/) * (@creativewebsites) * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303421) * Hi Guys, * Im getting the same error 404 when trying to log on to my wordpress blog [http://creativewebconcepts.com.au/blog](http://creativewebconcepts.com.au/blog)( creative websites) * I am new to wordpress and someone else set it up for me so i am very lost. Please help I have been reading lots of posts on here and have tried a few thing but no change and I have since deleted and reinstalled my wordpress files to my ftp via filezilla but didnt work, i moved the files under www folder/directory and still not worked, i have moved them to public_html/blog folder and still not working….help Im sorry i am lost. * What originally happened is, that i had my blog directed to my web site and all was fine, i then uploaded in filezilla a test web site then deleted the redirect of my blog as it was connected to the web site and it was all working, but then i wanted to remove the test site and go back to just having my creative websites blog only – (creativewebconcepts.com.au/blog)back up and when i deleted the files from filezilla (but left some files) i think I deleted too much and now as above i have tried many diffrent ways and cant get it to work and dont know where to put it etc. I also tried to change the wp-config-sample to wp-config.php but i think i did that wrong too!!! I tried doing the wp-admin/install.php aswell and that didnt do anything either….sorry i do need your help. * this is the current error message;;;; **Not Found** * The requested URL /blog/install.php was not found on this server. * Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. * I cant even get access to creativewebconcepts.com.au/wp-admin, have i deleted too much!! can i delete everything in filezilla and try again or???? * I posted on here a few days ago and have had no response yet?? * Thanks Natalie Viewing 13 replies - 1 through 13 (of 13 total) The topic ‘404 error when trying access wp-admin’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [404-error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/404-error/) * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/) * 13 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [creativewebsites](https://wordpress.org/support/users/creativewebsites/) * Last activity: [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-when-trying-access-wp-admin/#post-1303421) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics