Getting False Positive 404 Errors with Newest Update

Hi,

Can you please share some examples of the redirects you’re using?

What hook are you doing the redirects on?

The 404 lockouts now happen on the “wp” hook at a priority of 9999.

Thanks,

Gerroald

Hi,

Thanks fro getting back to me.

Here’s a sample of what a redirect look like

From
https://www.sitesample/Videos/tvserghh/

Redirect to:
https://www.sitesample/7127/tvserghh/

The site is using this custom permalink:

https://www.sitesample/%post_id%/%postname%/

Hi,

Are you using a plugin or your own code to perform the redirects?

Thanks,

Gerroald

Hi,
We are using Apache mod_rewrite and a code that looks something similar like you will see below. (not actual code, but a sample just to illustrate the point here).

RewriteEngine on
RewriteBase /
RewriteOptions inherit

#Redirect for New Custom Permalink
RedirectMatch 301 ^/videos/([^/]+)$ https://www.sitesample.com/%post_id%/%postname%/$1

#auto-correct errant characters from Videos URLs spaces and any encoded symobls

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^[/]([videos\s>\+\ ]|%[A-Z0-9]{2,2}){6,} [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)(?:[^a-zA-Z0-9/_-]|%[A-Z0-9]{2,2})+(.*)$ $1$2 [NC,L,R=301,DPI]

Hi,

Would it be possible for you to email me the actual URLs?

[email protected]

Thanks,

Gerroald

Hi,

Just sent you an email.

Thanks

The same problem is here

Hi,

We are still having massive problems with the false positive 404 errors.

We disabled the 404 detection on the plugin and installed a 3rd party plugin just to monitor the soft 404 errors. The 404s did not show up on the 3rd party plugin monitor, but we now are starting to see on our Google search console (webmaster tools) massive soft 404 errors there which is definitely not good for the site.

We know with certainty that is iThemes causing the issue as when the plugin is turned off the 404 disappear.