Forbidden You don't have permission to access /wp-login.php on this server

Question

I have one problem with all my WordPress\'s sites. I can access in all and navigate in the posts, pages and other. But when I go to wp-login.php I view the form

Answer 1

The solution is to add this to the beginning of your .htaccess

<Files wp-login.php>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from all
</Files>

It's because many hosts were under attack, using the wordpress from their clients.

Answer 2

I had this same problem, and after temporarily deleting all my .htaccess files, then trying to modify them as suggested, and making sure all my files and folder permissions were set to 777, I still couldn't get it to work. I don't know why I couldn't access the file, but I was able to create a new file and access it no problem. So what I did was create a new file in /wp-admin/ called temp.php and pasted all the code from install.php into it. This allowed me to access the file. The only other thing I had to do was edit the code so that the form submitted to temp.php instead of install.php. After that, I could finish the install and everything worked.

<form id="setup" method="post" action="temp.php?step=2">

Answer 3

If you are using the iThemes Security plugin (former Better WP security) please refer to the answer provided by Mikeys4u.

Also, there is a similar thread related to this plugin on the WordPress support: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-reset-ithemes-security-plugin-to-fix-issues

Make sure you backup your database before trying any of the solutions.