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I developed a site 6 months ago and now need to update it, but i can't access the login page to get in to it. I get a "this is somewhat embarassing" erro page. Tried wp-login.php at end of url as well but this also didn't work. Help please

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Try to login over FTP. If you can do that you can start to work out what is wrong. – s_ha_dum Nov 9 '12 at 1:13
i am in the hosts server but not sure where to try and login to wordpress here, what should i be looking for? – reachkelly Nov 9 '12 at 1:49
You can't login. You can try to figure out what happened. Make sure all the files are there. Sounds like they may not be. Look around for a .htaccess file and post the contents if you find it. Also, what is your URL? – s_ha_dum Nov 9 '12 at 2:44
www.childtalk.com.au is the url, i never used cpanel to login to wordpress before, am i in the right area? – reachkelly Nov 9 '12 at 6:24
I have looked for the .htaccess file but can't see it, its not in any of the wp-admin, includes or content folders, not in root folder either, could this be the problem to not access the login page? – reachkelly Nov 9 '12 at 7:50

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For having trouble logging in to your WordPress Administration Panels, review this WordPress Codex: http://codex.wordpress.org/Login_Trouble

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Try disabling all your plugins by moving or deleting them from your /wp-content/plugins/ folder. Do this by FTP or by your host's control panel.

If this doesn't work, log in to the server via FTP, and upload a fresh copy of WordPress. This will fix your wp-admin, and any other folders or files that have been corrupted.

You can download a fresh copy of WordPress from WordPress.org.

For other solutions, including new login files and database-altering, see the WordPress Codex page on Login Issues.

They suggest that, in case all else fails, you post at the WordPress Support Forum. Be sure to give details of your server setup, if you know it, including mySQL and PHP versions, as well as your operating system (OS), browser, and the WordPress version that is causing these problems.

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Your login screen is here: http://childtalk.com.au/wordpress/wp-login.php

You've done something like what is on this Codex page to hide the '/wordpress/' directory.

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