[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#6153

Hi

My 404 redirect doesn’t seem to be working on my dev site.

Can anyone suggest where I could be going wrong?

The site is here:

http://testing.walkingplaces.co.uk

A bad URL is here

http://testing.walkingplaces.co.uk/walk55

Thanks

Hank

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#33511

All of your posts returns 404. Example, http://testing.walkingplaces.co.uk/walk-54-at-out-witts-ends/ It seems your site is missing the .htaccess file. Make sure you have it on root directory. A typical .htaccess created by WordPress will be like this,

# 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

#33512

Yes, sorry about that – I have been playing with .htaccess as I thought that may be the issue – somehow I’d deleted it and not restored it.

I have recreated default file by saving changes in Permalinks options.

The link you mention now works, but the bad link I mention in the OP still doesn’t.

Thanks for looking at this and hope you can now help 🙂

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#33513

Did you edit 404.php? I see the HTML source instead of the 404 page on http://testing.walkingplaces.co.uk/walk55

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#33514

No I haven’t edited 404.php

I have just set up a new site, on a new database, for the client to begin data entry and that is showing the same symptoms

It also shows the HTML code rather than the expected page display

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#33515

I now have this site live and the 404 redirect, although it is working to an extent, is not formatting properly.

As you can see from this:

http://www.theramblingbadgers.walkingplaces.co.uk/walks.htm

I have the .htaccess provided by WordPress, checked it and its the same as the one mentioned above.

I have not edited 404.php

Any ideas where I’m going wrong?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous

#33516

What permalink structure you have in permalink settings? Do you have .htm there?