Title: Weird error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Weird error

 *  [wpbloggerguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbloggerguy/)
 * (@wpbloggerguy)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-4/)
 * This is a real weird error…
 * if someone midtypes, and calls up my blog like this:
 * [http://www.domain.com/f](http://www.domain.com/f)
 * it’ll not kick out the 404.php, but the first post whose title begins with f…..
   while this is somewhat cool, how do I fix that?

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 *  [ivovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivovic/)
 * (@ivovic)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-4/#post-768412)
 * change your permalink structure to something other than %postname% only.
 * that’s the cause of your problem in the other thread too.
 *  Thread Starter [wpbloggerguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbloggerguy/)
 * (@wpbloggerguy)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-4/#post-768423)
 * Actually, my permalink is Day and Name, so I don’t get how it’s even doing this
   to begin with.
 * Everything was fine when I was on mediatemple’s grid, but after migrating to 
   dv, issues popped up.
 *  [ivovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivovic/)
 * (@ivovic)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-4/#post-768425)
 * the problem is that your post names can be anything – so wordpress has to react
   to *everything* in order to try to match them.
 * sounds logical when you think about it.
 * you can set your permas to something short like /docs/%postname% if you want,
   and it’ll work, it just has to have either more information, or a static element
   like %postname%.html even.
 * edit: ah you edited… well if its not your permalinks doing this, then I suggest
   removing your htaccess file and letting wordpress re-create it.
 *  Thread Starter [wpbloggerguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbloggerguy/)
 * (@wpbloggerguy)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-4/#post-768427)
 * ahh…good point. I’ll do that..I want to keep things the same, because I get a
   lot of traffic from people posting links….
 * thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [wpbloggerguy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wpbloggerguy/)
 * (@wpbloggerguy)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-error-4/#post-768429)
 * Just recreated it, and it’s still doing it…what a weird thing….

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