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1. vsa
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   All works fine when my .htaccess looks like this:
   ErrorDocument 404 http://vitorazevedo.com/wp-content/themes/blocks/404.html
   (this is, the custom 404 page works fine if the user types an invalid url)

   But if I use the nice urls permalinks (www.site.com/my-post/) my .htaccess looks like this:
   ErrorDocument 404 http://vitorazevedo.com/wp-content/themes/blocks/404.html
   # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php
</IfModule>

   # END WordPress

   and the custom 404 error page doesnt work.
   Any help?

2. Austin Matzko
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   WP 2.0 redirects erroneous pages to the index or to a 404.php file in the current theme, if it exists.

   So you could either make a 404.php page just like the one you're redirecting to, or have the 404.php page simply forward to your existing error page.

3. Netdetective
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I think I just discovered that to get erroneous links within the blog to redirect to the main blog page instead of 404.php, all I needed to do is delete 404.php.
   Fred

4. GURT
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   in wp 2.0.1
   deleting 404.php just makes the blog address load
   still not getting my custom 404

5. jessamyn
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   I'm having this same problem. my wordpress blog is a small part of my overall website and I use the .htaccess file to redirect some other URLs in addition to the custom 404 page, outside of the WordPress universe. What I'd like is for my changes to the .htacces file to work AND to be able to use the same old clean URLs that I was using before the upgrade. For the record, my .htacces fil looks like this, post 2.0.1 upgrade

   # DirectoryIndex index.php
# Options FollowSymlinks

   ErrorDocument 404 http://librarian.net/404
   RewriteRule ^index\.rss /wp-rss2.php
   RewriteRule ^index\.rdf /wp-rss2.php
   RewriteRule ^index\.xml /wp-rss2.php
   RewriteRule ^about\.html /about
   RewriteRule ^what\.html /about
   RewriteRule ^faq\.html /faq
   RewriteRule ^talks/index\.html /talk

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


   Suggestions?

6. spencerp
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   Just on a side note, you can add re-directs to the .htaccess file, incase say, maybe you changed your blog's location on your server.

   I had that problem before, I had mine at domain.com/blog and then had moved it to: domain.com.

   All the visitors or what not were getting 404s because the blog was moved into the root. I asked Scotty ( http://www.fucoder.com/ ) for some help on this and he told me to do this:

   Add this to the .htaccess file under the: RewriteBase / part of the .htaccess part. Just copy and paste that whole line, well just one of them below and add your own domain name to it. =)

   RewriteRule ^blog/(.*) http://www.vindictivebastard.net/$1 [R,L]

RewriteRule ^plog/(.*) http://www.vindictivebastard.net/$1 [R,L]


   Now all the old links to either my Plog or Blog url redirects to the domain.com.

   Example here in this post.
   http://www.vindictivebastard.net/brand-new-if-it-wasnt-for-scottys-help.htm/

   or as a Test of it:
   http://www.vindictivebastard.net/blog/brand-new-if-it-wasnt-for-scottys-help.htm/

   I'm also planning on customizing my 404 page, so it basically either redirects ppls to index page, or make the 404 a copy of the index page.... hopefully this will work. =)

   spencerp

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