[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#3898

Hi, my blog isn’t using Graphene’s (excellent) 404 error page anymore. It simply goes to a custom 404 from my host (Bluehost), but with the same URL as the error URL. I think they changed something when I asked them to fix a redirect error I made when messing with my .htaccess file. Does anyone know where I should fix this? I appreciate the help even if it ends up not being Graphene-related… 🙂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#26496

Can you post the content of your .htaccess file here. (Use pastebin.com if it has so many lines). I bet, a misconfiguration(?) in .htaccess file is causing the issue.

Apparently, try resetting your permalink settings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#26497

Hi Prasanna. My permalinks are on default right now. The htaccess for my wordpress install (myblog.net/blog) is empty:

# BEGIN WordPress



# END WordPress

This is the file I messed up, and had to call Bluehost for.

However, the level above my install (public_html folder) has another htaccess, with this:

# Use PHP5 Single php.ini as default

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5s .php

and this level also has several shtml files, 401, 403, and 404.shtml. I have no idea if this has to do with my problem or not.

Sorry if what I’m explaining is confusing to you; I have no idea what elements and folders are normal for any wordpress page, and what is exclusive to Bluehost’s system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#26498

Okay, go to WP-Admin –> Settings –> Permalinks Settings (better is to with post name structure) and save permalink settings. That should create an .htaccess file in your wordpress install.

If not, create an .htaccess file with,

# BEGIN WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

</IfModule>



# END WordPress

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#26499

Ah, changing the permalink setting did it! I didn’t think it would be that simple… Apparently the 404 works fine with any permalink setting except the default, but I don’t care about going back to the default anyways. 😉 Thank you very much, Prasanna!