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Don’t know the version numbers but updated yesterday when prompted & lost access to the admin area.

No access to WordPress at all this morning, removing jetpack from the plugins folder cured it.

(sorry for the ‘me to’ post)

I’m on WP 3.4.2 & WP SEO 1.2.8.5. I’m getting the same 404 as the OP but

a) Don’t understand where to put the rewrite rules (I’m using NginX)
b) @rahul, I’m just using the ‘You can find your XML Sitemap here’ button in the plugin

Also just noticed that the plugin isn’t generating a new sitemap after creating a new post

Forget the first question, forgot to go back to the general section & enable CDN. Would still like an answer to the CNAME question though

Figured it out, I found some code on this site which, when placed in a .php file & run on the web server, checked MySQL connectivity for any particular user. This is the error I got –

Could not connect: mysqlnd cannot connect to MySQL 4.1+ using the old insecure authentication. Please use an administration tool to reset your password with the command SET PASSWORD = PASSWORD('your_existing_password'). This will store a new, and more secure, hash value in mysql.user. If this user is used in other scripts executed by PHP 5.2 or earlier you might need to remove the old-passwords flag from your my.cnf file

After a bit of Googling, I commented out the old-passwords line from my.cnf & restarted MySQL server. I then re-applied the password for the database user using the syntax from this site, once that was all done I was able to install WordPress

To add to this, I’ve just removed the database & database user in MySQL & recreated them. I haven’t made any mistakes & still get the same error in WordPress

We both did, many times

He might be seeing what I’m seeing on a fresh 3.4.1 install –

Error establishing a database connection

This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
Are you sure that the database server is running?

If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums.

I’ve double checked my database & database user settings & everything’s correct

I’m sure there used to be a facility in an earlier version of WordPress to do this from the edit page of individual pages or somewhere (just with a drop-down list of themes or something).

I don’t use a .htaccess file but I have got the following at the top of my rewrite rules in the Litespeed virtual server serving the site

ErrorDocument 404/index.php?error=404?

I’ve also got a custom 404 page set up in Litespeed pointing to my custom 404.php page

Well I think I’ll have to mark this as unresolveable. Taking that line out just produces a blank area instead of that line.

I’ve set a custome error page in Litespeed, but I guess if I can’t get WordPress to generate 404’s, that will never be used.

Ah!! we’re getting somewhere, found this in the index.php of my theme –

<?php _e(‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’); ?>

That explains where the text is being generated, I guess I should rewrite that line to call the 404.php page, but I’ve no idea how.

Thanks for the reply,

I already have a (modified) 404.php shipped with the theme I use but WordPress isn’t using it (according to these snippets from your link it should be)

As I stated in my 1st post, all I get is ‘Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’ with a 200 reponse rather than a 404 (no idea what’s generating that text).

‘When a user clicks on a link to a missing page, the web server will send the user an error message such as 404 Not Found’

‘The normal 404.php page shipped with your Theme will work’

Local problem indeed, was Adblock Plus causing the problem

Not fixed, must be a local problem of some sort then