Title: Permalink Settings, cannot return 404 correctly
Last modified: October 1, 2020

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# Permalink Settings, cannot return 404 correctly

 *  [vpsgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vpsgo/)
 * (@vpsgo)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-cannot-return-404-correctly/)
 * My Permalink Settings is as follow.
 * /%postname%.html
 * Hence, my post url is like _[ redundant link removed ]_
 * And I suppose for link like /sdafjlasdf/, it should return 404 just like /sdafjlasdf.
   html does. However, the link /sdafjlasdf/ returns homepage rather than 404.
 * My Nginx rewrite rule is as follow:
 *     ```
       location / {
       	try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php?$args;
       }
       ```
   
 * Can anyone give me some idea how to fix this issue?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fpermalink-settings-cannot-return-404-correctly%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  [sebinfernandez](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sebinfernandez/)
 * (@sebinfernandez)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/permalink-settings-cannot-return-404-correctly/#post-13491704)
 * [https://www.portent.com/blog/seo/create-a-great-404-page.htm](https://www.portent.com/blog/seo/create-a-great-404-page.htm)

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