Title: Skip WordPress for Standard Errors
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Skip WordPress for Standard Errors

 *  [droimbai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/droimbai/)
 * (@droimbai)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-wordpress-for-standard-errors/)
 * I’ve created 400, 401, 403, 404 and 500 error pages for my site and they are 
   specified in the beginning of .htaccess. For example,
 *     ```
       ErrorDocument 400 /errors/400.htm
       ErrorDocument 401 /errors/401.htm
       ErrorDocument 403 /errors/403.htm
       ErrorDocument 404 /errors/404.htm
       ErrorDocument 500 /errors/500.htm
       ```
   
 * But, 404 isn’t used. When accessing an non existent page, WordPress still revert
   back to index.php, not the one I’ve defined.
 * Any advice?
 * Thanks in advance!

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 *  Thread Starter [droimbai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/droimbai/)
 * (@droimbai)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-wordpress-for-standard-errors/#post-2801322)
 * I’ve thrown together the following hack from various sources on the web. It seems
   to work, but I’d like to run across the experts here to see if there will be 
   any potential problems:
 *     ```
       RewriteEngine on
       RewriteCond $1 ^(index\.php)?$ [OR]
       RewriteCond $1 \.(jpg|png|gif|css|js|ico|mp3)$ [NC,OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d [OR]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule ^(.*)$ - [S=1]
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       ```
   
 * What do you think? The whole aim here is to minimize running WordPress for standard
   errors.
 * Thanks for your time.
 * **Edit: Alas, nope this doesn’t work. Break WordPress. 🙁**
 *  [Jarret](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarretc/)
 * (@jarretc)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-wordpress-for-standard-errors/#post-2801336)
 * Is there a 404.php within your theme’s files?
 *  Thread Starter [droimbai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/droimbai/)
 * (@droimbai)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-wordpress-for-standard-errors/#post-2801411)
 * Yup there is. But, I’m trying to bypass it (WordPress) if possible to reduce 
   load on my server.

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## Tags

 * [htaccess](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/htaccess/)
 * [server errors](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/server-errors/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [droimbai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/droimbai/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/skip-wordpress-for-standard-errors/#post-2801411)
 * Status: not resolved

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