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I cant access wp-admin at all after changing wp-config folder permission for hardening my security. The content for the site load find, i cant access wp-admin at all, all i get is 404 message.

anyone know how to fix this, I need a fix FAST.

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have you tried reverting the changes you did to wp-config? – moraleida May 18 '12 at 14:16
I tried the undo method and Michael way but get "Internal Server Error" :( I did not delete any files or folders – Jermaine Hercules May 18 '12 at 14:39
my .htacess file looks like this # BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/(wp-admin|wp-admin/.*)$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress – Jermaine Hercules May 18 '12 at 14:42

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Delete .htaccess

type in domain.com/wp-login.php

login.

Dashboard -> Settings -> Permalinks -> Save. (just automatically recreates your .htaccess again).

If the problem persists. Try disabling plugins. Enable plugins 1 by 1 until the problem occurs again. That will narrow down the faulty plugin.

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it turned out i mistakenly change folder permission on wp-admin and wp-includes 3.5 hours wasted. – Jermaine Hercules May 18 '12 at 15:53
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If ALL you did was to change wp-config.php permissions, look on your folder (or on a fresh WP folder) for wp-config-sample.php, make a copy of it, and fill in the database connection lines again.

Then rename wp-config to wp-config-OLD.php and the copy of wp-config-sample to wp-config.php and you should be fine.

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