WordPress.org

1. richarduk
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm having a problem with .htaccess sending all 404 error pages to the index page

   If I remove the wordpress block the 404 pages all go to the appropriate error page, but the wordpress component of my site doesn't work any more (it shows a 404 error)

   This is the .htaccess file

   <Files .htaccess>
   
   order allow,deny
   
   deny from all
   
   </Files>
   
   ErrorDocument 403 /403.php
   # forbidden
   
   ErrorDocument 404 /404.php
   #not found
   
   ErrorDocument 500 /500.php
   # internal error
   
   # 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. richarduk
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Resolved!

   Duh!

   I've spent months on this and now I see the answer as soon as I post the question!

   Simple - I had the error pages in the root of my site, not in my theme directory - so obviously (template hierarchy) since there were no error pages in the theme directory WP used the index page.

   What surprises me is that non-WordPress pages on my 'mixed' site resolve to the correct error page hidden in my theme directory even though I'm using relative urls.

   Doesn't seem to be a cache issue ..

Topic Closed

This topic has been closed to new replies.