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1. wrichter
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I noticed on other WordPress blogs, that if i do this http://www.theblogsURL.com/**** where **** is a made up bogus file or directory their custom WordPress 404 page will come up. If I do that on my website, the regular Apache 404 page comes up. But if I do http://www.myblogURL.us/feed/euhfuehfu I will get my blog's 404 page, not Apache's. Is something incorrectly configured?

2. cavemonkey50
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I had that same problem. What I did was set the 404 page to blogurl.com/index.php/404 in .htaccess. It's not 100% correct but at least it's a temporary solution until someone finds the answer.

3. wrichter
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Cool, I was trying to figure out how to pass that to index.php through htaccess.

4. jborneman
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   best place I can find for this question. I'm trying to create a custom 404 page. I made a template for 404 and created a page that exists at http://www.mydomain.com/404/ that has what I want to be my 404 page.

   I tried adding the following to my .htaccess
   ErrorDocument 404 http://www.mydomain.com/404/

   But everytime I go to a page that does not exist (this example, http://www.mydomain.com/nothere.html) I get the following:
   "Not Found
   The requested URL /nothere.html was not found on this server.

   Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. "

   ANy ideas? AM I doing something really dumb?

5. Michael Adams (mdawaffe)
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   In .htaccess:
   ErrorDocument 404 /index.php?error=404

   Don't make Page Template for this, and don't make a Page pointing to it. Just name a file 404.php in your current theme's directory and put in whatever text you want to display on your 404 message directly in that template file.

6. jborneman
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   you're the man (or woman? either way, it worked :)! that worked great.

7. Michael Adams (mdawaffe)
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   (man)
   Glad it worked out :)

8. courtneyelizabeth
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   cool....thanks for this...

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