Title: HTTP error 404 on wp-login.php
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# HTTP error 404 on wp-login.php

 *  [robnicholson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robnicholson/)
 * (@robnicholson)
 * [9 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-404-on-wp-loginphp/)
 * My first forage into WordPress although I’ve been supporting CMS systems for 
   years on Windows. New installation running WP on Windows 2012 Server with IIS
   8. Works a treat except for one annoyance. When one returns to the website after
   a time, you get a 404 error if you try to load [http://www.mywebsite.com/wp-login.php](http://www.mywebsite.com/wp-login.php).
   If you refresh the page a few times, the logon screen does finally appear.
 * There are lots of posts on this same error but most of them appear to be temporary
   fixes and I’m looking for something more permanent. I’ve got another pilot site
   on the same server and it has the same problem.
 * I know how websites and IIS work reasonably well internally as I’m also a web
   app developer and I’m guessing that it’s something to do with the worker process
   ending after a period of being idle. There are lots of talk of permalinks but
   I’m not sure this is the problem with IIS as [http://www.mywebsite.com/wp-login.php](http://www.mywebsite.com/wp-login.php)
   isn’t a redirection at all – wp-login.php exists at the root of the website. 
   Using /admin would be a redirection I assume but I’m not using that URL.
 * Whilst I’m very familiar with IIS & web apps, that’s more in the ASP.NET world
   and my PHP knowledge is sketchy.
 * Looking first of all for why WordPress or PHP might be throwing up the 404 error
   at all?

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 *  Thread Starter [robnicholson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robnicholson/)
 * (@robnicholson)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-error-404-on-wp-loginphp/#post-7601637)
 * Well I was about to throw the towel in with WordPress as the above error had 
   become endemic on all new computers that attempted to login to the site. Anyone
   already logged in was okay but if they logged out – bang! No chance of getting
   in.
 * Except v4.6 arrived today and after backing up, I upgraded. It looks like this
   fault has been fixed so one suspects it might have been a bug. Hope I’m not speaking
   too soon and it’ll break again later…

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