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1. Platinummember
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   First of all, I don't speak web.config. So I have to rely on the examples I find on the internet and just try. This seems to be the standard web.config to use:

   <rewrite>
   <rules>
   <rule name="Main Rule" stopProcessing="true">
   <match url=".*" />
   <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
   <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
   <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
   </conditions>
   <action type="Rewrite" url="index.php" />
   </rule>
   </rules>
   </rewrite>

   I have several WP sites on the same dedicated server and all sites work with this web.config, except one. When you go to http://www.mysite.com , you see a 404 [1]. All other links work, including http://www.mysite.com/index.php. It's driving me mad because I can't see the difference with the other sites on the same server.

   [1] custom 404

2. arkgroup
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Platinummember,

   Try to restart web service for this domain, then clear your browser cache and access your website again.

3. Platinummember
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Tried it, doesn't work.

   I discovered one difference which I overlooked: the working site has WP 3.0.1 and the sites where it doesn't work have version 3.1. Would it be a bug in 3.1?

4. Platinummember
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hmm, I downgraded to 3.0.3 in my own language (Dutch) but it has the same problem. Chance that the version is the problem is slim, I think.

   I'm pulling my hair out over this. Especially while I have a site on the same server that does work :-S

5. Platinummember
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Still can't get it to work. So I made a dirty solution: redirect the root to index.php. I added this in index.php as first two instructions:

   $file = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];
   if ($file != "/index.php") header('Location: index.php');

   It's ugly but it works.

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