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1. adamoliver
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I'm working on a blog at http://blog.mbluk.com and am having trouble getting a 404 page to appear. I have pretty permalinks set up which work fine but when you go to a page that does not exist a blank page appears which returns 200.

   Turning off the pretty permalinks fixes the problem but it would be nice to have it working with the clean URL.

   I have a few plugins that I have used but turning them off doesn't fix the problem. I have also created a 404 file for the template.

   Here's the .htaccess file that WordPress has generated:

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   
   # END WordPress

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 3 years ago #

   you have a 404.php in your theme?

3. adamoliver
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   yeah I created a 404.php page

4. AndyiBM
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I also have this issue, but I also have another site where, using .htaccess:
   

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404
   </IfModule>
   # END WordPress

   and Pretty Permalinks set-up, I get a page of source code appear instead of my 404.php, which is present in my themes folder.

   Is there a straightforward solution to this?

5. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Try removing the ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404 line and see how WP handles it. If there's a problem, it might worth quickly switching to the default theme to test whether this is theme-related.

6. AndyiBM
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I removed the ErrorDocument line, and it made no difference on either site. I swapped back the Default theme, and got a different page of Source Code displayed for the one, and an unstyled HTML page for the other.

   Have a dreadful feeling that there's something inherently wrong with all my code...

7. AndyiBM
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've added it to a fresh installation, and now it's working.

   Frustrating that I don't know what I did wrong, but relieved it now works.

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