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1. caneblock
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I've noticed on my WordPress blog that if I go to a url that does not exist (eg http://www.domain.com/a), WordPress will find an article that starts with the letter a and return it.

   If however, I go to a url that doesn't exist and contains lots of gibberish characters (eg http://www.domain.com/adadf) and wordpress cannot find an article that starts with adadf, it returns a 404.

   How do I get wordpress to return a 404 for all pages that don't exist, rather then just the ones that it can't find a suitable article for.

   I am using permalinks (/%postname%/) and my htaccess looks as follows:

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

   # END WordPress

   Options All -Indexes

   # to protect wp-config.php
   <Files wp-config.php>
   order allow,deny
   deny from all
   </Files>

   # to protect the .htaccess file itself:
   <Files .htaccess>
   order deny,allow
   deny from all
   </Files>

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