pretty links and 404 errors

Hi,

Reset your desired permalink from wordpress admin area and add this code in htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

Thanks,

Shane G.

Hi

Thanks for this, unfortunately my .htaccess already looks like this. Well similar, the RewriteBaseand RewriteRulehave /wordpress. – the other thing that I didn’t mention was that my wordpress files are always in a different folder to the blog address (e.g. mydomain.com/wordpress/)

You can see this error in action on a site I am working on at the moment. Compare:

photoshoppingpong.com/fdhsjkfhksdh with photoshoppingpong.com/?page_id=4515315611

Both are false pages, but the first displays badly.

Am I the only one getting this? It would be interesting to hear if anyone else with their wordpress files in a subfolder and running pretty links has the same issue. It would also be interesting to hear if you are not having the problem!

I’m experiencing exactly the same issue, and am nowhere near clearing up the issue.

I wonder if you have the same issue as me:

When you view the first page of a list of posts from a particular category they display fine, but when you click to view ‘Older’ links the partial source code is displayed?

Interestingly, i have created another mysql database and installed wordpress in a subdirectory and 404 errors display a blank page

Very Strange!

I don’t get it with the older posts. Mine only appears if I try to go to a pretty link that isn’t there. I have now put in a 404.php page which gives me an ironically preferable browser error!

I’m still no closer to figuring this out.

I don’t know what is causing the problem but I have stumbled apon a solution. I hope this help the good wordpress people find out what is happening….

When my site which is running on %post_name% pretty links returns a 404 about 7,800 characters are cut from the beginning of the html. The reason then that it appears to start at a random point will be what changes have been made in the header (e.g. a longer or shorter title).

What I have done is create a 404.php and add about 7,800 spaces to line 1. This is now working absolutely fine. But it is so obviously not right!!!

I hope this helps other people resolve any 404 issues. It would be interesting to hear if it is the same number for all sites

(I didn’t count them myself I copied the line into Word and look at the doc properties!!)