permalinks customised in any particular way? or even one of the presets makes this happen?
consider letting wordpress create it’s own htaccess file, which you can modify later, once everything works, if you need to.
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poe
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Yup I did let WordPress create it’s own htaccess. Permalinks are customized like this:
/%year%%monthnum%%day%/%postname%/
If I don’t have them customzied (use default) the 404 works just fine but if I use the above it goes to a blank page as I described instead of my 404 page when an invalid url is accessed.
I’m surprised that works when a *valid* URL is selected. Without any delimiters between the year-month-day, I’m surprised wordpress can work out what the hell it’s supposed to be doing.
would you consider linking to your site, poe, so we can see this behaviour for ourselves?
I’m mainly curious to try removing the postname from a valid link and seeing what happens.
if you don’t want to use delimiters, like not even dots, then why use dates at all? set your permalink to something like /articles/%postname%
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poe
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Ah. The problem was that I wasn’t thinking. While I’m getting my new site ready I don’t have the index.php uploaded to the root directory (have a blank page instead) which wasn’t allowing the WP 404 to redirect to the main 404 for files outside Worpress (one of which I was working on). See, I’m using
<?php require('wp-blog-header.php'); ?>
to incorporate my whole site into my WP theme. If that makes any sense. It works now anyway! Thanks for answering Ivonic 🙂
could have told you that if you’d linked your site, pee 😉
I’m still quite surprised that permalink structure works, that’s actually pretty cool for those concerned that date-based permalinks create deep directories.
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poe
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Actually, I’ve used that customization for quit some time (on other blogs) and it works just fine. Thanks though, as I said above I figured out the problem was me, heh 😉
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poe
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I would have linked to my site but there’s absolutely nothing there for the time being until I’m done with the rest of the site. The blog is all ready to go but with no posts so it wouldn’t have done any good to post the URL 🙂
I got that permalink structure from here…
http://jayesel.net/
I just like the way it looks. I didn’t think it would work either but it does for her and it alaways has for me too.
thats actually really awesome – and degrades properly too with digits removed… me rikey!
that makes me want to change my permastinks… but I’m not really looking forward to the many 301 redirects required to make it happen :/
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poe
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Indeed. Scaaaaawy the changing of the permakinks! :p
