' 404 Page not found,' not within site, when using index.html

  • Resolved jamminjames

    (@jamminjames)


    9 years, 5 months ago

    I notice on other WordPress sites, when you put ‘/index.html’ after the root url of the site, it goes to a ‘404 Page not found’ within the site. But the way it’s coming up on for my site, it is a standard 404 (not within the site), making it look like there is no such website at all. This is the real problem, as people using an old link could think the site is defunct.

    When I deactivate W3 Total Cache, it no longer does this, so it must be a setting within the plugin, but I don’t know what.

    Any help would be appreciated!

    The site is http://www.humortimes.com, and http://www.humortimes.com/index.html brings up the page I’m talking about. If it were a 404 within the site, people could see the site is live.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

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  • Thread Starter jamminjames

    (@jamminjames)

    9 years, 5 months ago

    I fixed this by moving the redirect rules in .htaccess (including the standard WordPress rules) up before the rules added by W3TC.

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