Recently I have had two occasions of trying to upload a plugin to WordPress but wasn’t able to because of an error that simply read Access Denied.

The first instance was with a plugin from the Yoothem extensions library. After troubleshooting with RealGeeks, they advised us to deactivate all of our plugins and then try and it worked. Afterwards, we simply were able to activate the plugins after the installation.

The second instance occurred with a paid premium booking plugin and the site was hosted with Hosting Nation this time. Randy asked if I had an Akeeba plugin on the website, to which the reply was yes.

So I turned off the and deleted the Akeeba plugins and then was able to install the plugin, normally.

So, if you ever get the Access Denied error, simply deactivate the two Akeeba plugins, Admin Tools and Akeeba Backup, and then try again. You can activate them after the successful plugin upload.

Update from Randy at Hosting Nation: “You can just disable the UploadShield in it.”