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1. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I've got a strange problem when I use pretty links %postname% and trigger a 404. When pretty links are off then the site displays the correct "No content" statement built into the theme files. But the moment I turn pretty links back on I get some strange extracts of the page code. Its seems that the page is being read from a few dozen lines of HTML in (so view source shows that <html.... etc is missing and it starts from somewhere in the body tag.

   It isn't just one site that I have this on - all custom themes - and I don't know what I am doing wrong.

   Anyone else had this? Any idea how I can solve it?

   Thanks

2. Shane G.
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi,

   Reset your desired permalink from wordpress admin area and add this code in htaccess:

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

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

3. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi

   Thanks for this, unfortunately my .htaccess already looks like this. Well similar, the RewriteBaseand RewriteRulehave /wordpress. - the other thing that I didn't mention was that my wordpress files are always in a different folder to the blog address (e.g. mydomain.com/wordpress/)

   You can see this error in action on a site I am working on at the moment. Compare:

   photoshoppingpong.com/fdhsjkfhksdh with photoshoppingpong.com/?page_id=4515315611

   Both are false pages, but the first displays badly.

4. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Am I the only one getting this? It would be interesting to hear if anyone else with their wordpress files in a subfolder and running pretty links has the same issue. It would also be interesting to hear if you are not having the problem!

5. jamie33lee
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm experiencing exactly the same issue, and am nowhere near clearing up the issue.

   I wonder if you have the same issue as me:

   When you view the first page of a list of posts from a particular category they display fine, but when you click to view 'Older' links the partial source code is displayed?

   Interestingly, i have created another mysql database and installed wordpress in a subdirectory and 404 errors display a blank page

   Very Strange!

6. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I don't get it with the older posts. Mine only appears if I try to go to a pretty link that isn't there. I have now put in a 404.php page which gives me an ironically preferable browser error!

   I'm still no closer to figuring this out.

7. nathan12343
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I don't know what is causing the problem but I have stumbled apon a solution. I hope this help the good wordpress people find out what is happening....

   When my site which is running on %post_name% pretty links returns a 404 about 7,800 characters are cut from the beginning of the html. The reason then that it appears to start at a random point will be what changes have been made in the header (e.g. a longer or shorter title).

   What I have done is create a 404.php and add about 7,800 spaces to line 1. This is now working absolutely fine. But it is so obviously not right!!!

   I hope this helps other people resolve any 404 issues. It would be interesting to hear if it is the same number for all sites

   (I didn't count them myself I copied the line into Word and look at the doc properties!!)

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