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Created Wordpress application droplet. Can't access wordpress from IP address.

Posted September 26, 2014 6.3k views

I created a Ubuntu 14.04 droplet with Wordpress preinstalled. I don’t have it connected to any domain name yet. The one-click tutorial indicates that you can access wp-admin by typing in the IP address, but when I try to access http://IP_address, my browser just says, “403 Forbidden. You don’t have permission to access / on this server.”

When I try http://IP_address/wp-admin/, I get a 404 not found.

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aguilar1181 September 26, 2014

have you gone through the wordpress set up yet? or is this right after the one click install?

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  • abcd_z September 26, 2014

    This is right after the one click install. I can’t access anything Wordpress-related. Where it should ask me for my password and login (I think?) it just says 403: Forbidden.

    I also created a ticket about this and the person who responded to me is unable to duplicate the problem. I’ll follow his advice and create a new droplet to see if that solves the problem.

    EDIT: That did not solve the problem.

    EDIT2: Okay, the second droplet had the same IP Address as the first one. I created a third droplet without destroying the second one to force a different IP address and that solved it.

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  • aguilar1181 September 27, 2014

    it looks like you are blacklisted to access that ip address of the first droplet, that’s why when you create that second with different ip you had no issues.

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  • abcd_z September 27, 2014

    The support staff saw the same thing I did on that droplet. He just couldn’t replicate it with another droplet. I originally thought he couldn’t see the problem, but that was a misunderstanding on my part.

    Since the official Digital Ocean staff member saw the same thing I did, didn’t mention a blacklist, and couldn’t immediately fix the problem at that IP address, it seems unlikely that there was a blacklist in play.

    Not impossible, just unlikely.

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