Title: 404 Error Question
Last modified: August 18, 2016

---

# 404 Error Question

 *  [publius2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/publius2016/)
 * (@publius2016)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-question/)
 * New User. Everything set up fine with godaddy, but the problem I still keep having
   is that when I go to my main page, wwww.mydomain.com, the page does not automatically
   load my index.php file.
 * After various attempts to correct the problem, I’m now getting the following 
   error:
 * Not Found
    The requested URL /index.php/wp-login.php was not found on this server.
 * Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument
   to handle the request.
 * What did I do? Errr…maybe the better question is, how do I solve the index.php
   problem once and for all?
 * [apologies in advance if this was posted somewhere else, but I couldn’t find 
   anything relevant after multiple searches]
 * thanks!!

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

 *  [Doodlebee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doodlebee/)
 * (@doodlebee)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-question/#post-416477)
 * is that a mistyping, or do you actually have “wwww.mydomain.com”?
 * it’s “www” – 3 “w”-s, not 4.
 * If you’re getting a 404 error, that means the file isn’t on your server to be
   found. Check and be sure it’s uploaded to the server.
 *  [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/)
 * (@yosemite)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-question/#post-416482)
 * `The requested URL /index.php/wp-login.php` looks whacky. Check this page, make
   sure you’re setting up the permalinks right:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Fixing_.28.htaccess.29_Generation_Issues](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Permalinks#Fixing_.28.htaccess.29_Generation_Issues)
 *  Thread Starter [publius2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/publius2016/)
 * (@publius2016)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-question/#post-416488)
 * Ok, thanks for the response Yosemite. I tried the advice in the link you suggested
   without success. However, what I did find out was that there is no .htaccess 
   file in my root directory.
 * And I also remembered that in WP, I clicked on “Options” and changed my blog 
   address and site address to read:
 * [http://www.mydomain.com/index.php](http://www.mydomain.com/index.php)
 * I never got the 404 Error prior to doing this. But, I still haven’t been able
   to fix it.
 * Now, I guess my problems are more involved. 1). Should I change my vars.php file
   back to what it originally was? 2). Now that I know (kinda) what I did wrong,
   is it possible to get back into WP and fix it? Or is there some fix I can do 
   with my FTP Client? 3). What can I do about the no .htaccess file? (When I opened
   WP in the past and was screwing around with it, it said there was no .htaccess
   file on the server.)
 * Thanks again….
 *  [yosemite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yosemite/)
 * (@yosemite)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-question/#post-416490)
 * Try: [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/)
 * When you get back into admin, go to permalinks and confirm, then ‘refresh’ and
   follow instructions at bottom of page.
 *  Thread Starter [publius2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/publius2016/)
 * (@publius2016)
 * [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-question/#post-416491)
 * that worked!
 * thank you thank you thank you

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘404 Error Question’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [godaddy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/godaddy/)
 * [index.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/index-php/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [publius2016](https://wordpress.org/support/users/publius2016/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-error-question/#post-416491)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics