wp-login 403 error

[megadope]

hi. for some reason when I enter mydomain.com/wp-admin into my http address bar instead of reaching the wp login screen I am redirected to this:

http://megadopebeatz.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http://megadopebeatz.com/wp-admin/&reauth=1

is wp-login.php disabled on my server?

 

[descalzo]

403 is Forbidden
What are the permissions on your files and directories?
What does your .htaccess files look like?

 

[megadope]

my file permissions are set to the default settings. Which files specifically?

this is my .htaccess :
# BEGIN WordPress
# END WordPress
Options -Indexes

the .htaccess only exists in the folder above the wordpress install

 

[megadope]

also for some reason I don't have an /index
shouldn't i have one?

and for some reason it didn't write the data to the wp-config.php
so i manually opened the wp-config-sample.php , filled in the data, renamed it, but it i'm still getting the same problem.

my wp-login.php is 644

Update: It can't be the file permissions for wp-login.php because I just attempted 777

 

[essellar]

Files with permissions higher than 644 are automatically blocked over HTTP by the server's security settings. (Nobody but you or a superuser should have write permission, and nobody other than superusers should have execute permission on any file. Directories need to be 755, since using a directory to get to a file it "contains" is "executing" it under *nix operating systems.) The Options -Indexes entry is preventing the index, which is what you normally want. Sorry I can't help with the remaining issues.

 

[megadope]

thank you. the directory permissions were too high.