“Not found” issue when accessing wp-admin for WordPress

“Not found” issue when accessing wp-admin for WordPress

I recently started a few new blogs and I used an automated installer to install WordPress via cPanel. However, when I created the site I noticed a few issues had arisen and that had made it impossible for me to login to “wp-admin” and “wp-login.php”, so I wondered what could have gone wrong, as every time when I tried to access those URLs, I encountered “Not found”, even though the directory does indeed exist. I knew it was a .htaccess issue, so I looked at one of my older blogs where I have none of these issues and copied my .htaccess file into the directory of my new site.

I copied this .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>\

# END WordPress

… into my blog’s new directory and the problem was fixed.

If you have this problem then this is most likely the fix!

Transferring to different servers headache

Transferring to different servers headache

Usually transferrals of my websites are easy and don’t involve many problems. However my main website is currently down and I’ve asked my host for assistants in fixing the issue as I’ve got a headache over it all. I’m still with the same host, I just wanted to be transferred to a faster server and now we are rocking on an 8 core server which I have seen notably faster response times on the website and in cPanel/WHM. The problem is that my main site is down (Webmasterspace) and I believe it is to do with DNS configuration. Though I’ve noticed that WHM is using some random IP address that I wasn’t assigned by my host or at least I wasn’t informed about. Thus when I changed my registered IP address for my nameservers, my websites DNS is not recognizing the change in WHM. – This is my theory, so whether I’m correct or not, I don’t know.

 

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