Title: Form Causing a 404 error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Form Causing a 404 error

 *  [backpages](https://wordpress.org/support/users/backpages/)
 * (@backpages)
 * [15 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-causing-a-404-error/)
 * I have two pages I’ve built, one contains a form and the second contains the 
   PHP code necessary to process the form. The form is here:
 * [http://www.mibyk.com/contact/](http://www.mibyk.com/contact/)
 * When the form is submitted it goes here:
 * [http://www.mibyk.com/process-form/](http://www.mibyk.com/process-form/)
 * Whenever I submit the form I get a 404 error. The page is definitely there, as
   I can navigate directly to it using the URL above. In fact, when the form is 
   submitted the URL it shows it going to is that exact URL, but it throws a 404
   error.
 * My only conclusion so far is that the server is not allowing any data to be sent
   via POST and when I do it acts as if the page doesn’t exist.
 * I’ve done this exact same thing countless times on other WordPress installations,
   this is the first time I’ve ever had a problem. I can only conclude it has something
   to do with how the servers are set up. The site is hosted via rackspace cloud
   servers.
 * If anyone has any ideas why this happening and what I can do to fix it, I’d be
   most grateful. (I’m also trying to contact the server tech support, but that 
   is proving to be slightly problematic so far.) Thanks for any insight or suggestions.

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 *  [James Irving-Swift](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingswiftj/)
 * (@irvingswiftj)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-causing-a-404-error/#post-1975885)
 * I have exactly the same problem except my form is using GET.
 *  Thread Starter [backpages](https://wordpress.org/support/users/backpages/)
 * (@backpages)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-causing-a-404-error/#post-1975886)
 * James: I finally figured out the problem on my end. It took me hours of troubleshooting
   but I finally figured out it had to do with the name of an input field. One of
   the fields on my form used “name” for the “name.” It looked like this:
 * `<input type="text" name="name" />`
 * When I changed it to something else, everything worked. I’m assuming there was
   some kind of conflict with the filed being named “name” from within WordPress.
   So, I changed it to:
 * `<input type="text" name="thename" />`
 * and it’s all good now. Hope this helps.
 *  [James Irving-Swift](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingswiftj/)
 * (@irvingswiftj)
 * [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-causing-a-404-error/#post-1975905)
 * backpages: We fixed it the same way. We also worked out why this was causing 
   a problem.
 * In 3.1 you can not name a field with a name that is also category name.

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 * In: [Hacks](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/hacks/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [James Irving-Swift](https://wordpress.org/support/users/irvingswiftj/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-causing-a-404-error/#post-1975905)
 * Status: not resolved

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