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My hosting provider moved me to a better and faster server and the whole process was smooth. I was a bit tardy in posting previously because of residency applications. When I had the time to post something new, I found that my wp-admin folder was not accessible – I could not even log into my wordpress admin pages.
10 days into the process and I finally figured out the problem. Turns out that the wp-admin folder needs to have a CHMOD of 755 only. During the move, the CHMOD was changed to 777 and that caused all the issues. Well anyway, I’m back and posting again.
Tags: wordpress
September 9th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Interesting. I would have never thought of such a permission problem. I’ll keep that in mind if I ever have similar troubles
September 9th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
Yeah.. it took me by surprise too. There were a couple of posts on wordpress forums about this issue (including mine) and I found one that said that permissions might be the cause. I did a CHMOD And wola!!!
September 10th, 2008 at 10:34 am
But why would you go to chmod? Is WP hosted on a linux core?
September 10th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
@ TechieGirl
FYI WordPress is only hosted on Apache/Linux servers. They are all php scripts. My server administrator moved me to a diff server and then had to reinstall phpsuexec and this is what caused the CHMOD and owner issues on the folders.
September 13th, 2008 at 12:23 am
I see. Smart idea that.