problem with non-existent pages

  • peredur

    (@peredur)


    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hi,

    This may be a very naive question, but I can’t seem to get the 404 page when I try to access a non-existent page. Instead I get what looks like a fragment of the HTML for the Dashboard!

    For example, you can try it at:

    http://www.urbanwords.org.uk/blah

    (Where ‘blah’ clearly does not exist)

    Just out of interest, I tried ‘blah.php’, which gives exactly the same result. If you try ‘blah.html’ the browser tries to render the result, but the result is basically the same.

    I’m using a custom child theme based on twentyten, but I’ve not done anything with the 404 page.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks

    PAE

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    if you have not modified 404.php, I would try:
    1 – looking in host control panel to make sure the generic host 404 isn’t taking over

    2 – re-saving permalinks
    dashboard – settings – permalinks

    3 – deactivate all plugins and then re-activate one by one, testing in between to rule out a plugin error

    4 – maybe try this plugin to force it
    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/smart-404/

    Thread Starter peredur

    (@peredur)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Hmm. Things aren’t as bad as I thought. Not good, but not as bad as I thought. The html that I see is the html for the admin bar, so if you’re not logged in, you don’t see it. On the other hand, you don’t see anything else, either. Just a blank page.

    I took a look at the ISP Control Panel, but couldn’t see anything there that looked helpful. And I saved the permalinks: but that didn’t help either.

    It looks as though I’m going to have to do the plugin thing, which scares me a bit, I must confess. Wimp. I know.

    I’ll let you know how I get on.

    Cheers

    PAE

    Thread Starter peredur

    (@peredur)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Sorry to reply to myself.

    I just looked at the .htaccess file in the document root. It reads:

    # 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

    Shouldn’t that be opening the index.php file if the requested file doesn’t exist?

    Cheers

    PAE

    Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    that’s a normal .htaccess
    the rewrite is referring to permalinks
    your theme should automatically pick up 404 page
    try copying over the 404.php to your child theme

    Thread Starter peredur

    (@peredur)

    14 years, 10 months ago

    Nope. Doesn’t change anything I’m afraid.

    Cheers

    PAE

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