Title: Comments 404 message
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Comments 404 message

 *  Resolved [ianbarker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbarker/)
 * (@ianbarker)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-404-message/)
 * I’m getting a “no page found” message when entering comments on a blog I’m working
   on. I am using a theme called “Piano Forte” that I changed and I didn’t realize
   I broke the comments. So I reinstalled the theme as a separate theme and the 
   comments work on there. So then I compared the index.php, comments-popup.php,
   and comments.php files and nothing seems out of the ordinary or wrong.
 * Here is the code from ‘index.php’ (there is no ‘page.php’):
 * `
    <div id="cats"><p class="postmetadata"><?php the_category(', ') ?> **|** <?
   php edit_post_link('Edit','','** | **'); ?><?php comments_popup_link('No Comments»','
   1 Comment »', '% Comments »'); ?></p><div id="divider"></div></div>
 *  <?php comments_template(); ?>
 * Any idea what I could have done to create a 404 when editing the ‘index.php’?
   I’m pretty sure that I didn’t touch the comments files and it seems that there
   are no files missing.

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 *  Thread Starter [ianbarker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbarker/)
 * (@ianbarker)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-404-message/#post-580286)
 * This is NOT a bump. I’ve just been trying to fix my problem and saw that when
   I enter a comment, I am redirected to this URL, which gives me a 404 error:
 * `http://www.heartsablaze.net/wes/index.php?s=&author=ian&comment_post_ID=4&redirect_to
   =%2Fwes
    %2F%3Fp%3D4&email=iantbarker%40gmail.com&url=iantbarker%40gmail.com&
   comment=hello&submit=Say+It%21r
 * Thought that was weird. The blog address is [http://www.heartsablaze.net/wes/](http://www.heartsablaze.net/wes/)
 * Again, this is not a bump but this info should help.
 *  Thread Starter [ianbarker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ianbarker/)
 * (@ianbarker)
 * [18 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-404-message/#post-580451)
 * I’m setting this to resolved because I am just using a different theme and changing
   it to match the previous design. Couldn’t figure out how to fix the comments.
 *  [geofones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geofones/)
 * (@geofones)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-404-message/#post-580604)
 * I’m getting exactly the same problem at [http://www.simply-social.com/blog](http://www.simply-social.com/blog)
   I’ve re-installed latest WP and changed themes to no avail.
 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-404-message/#post-580605)
 * Geofones – I think your problem may be because you are trying to use pretty links
   on an IIS platform. This won’t be possible in the standard wordpress method because
   IIS doesn’t use .htaccess which is used for your pretty permalinks.
 * Turn back to ugly permalinks.
 * Edit – also you may need to start your own thread because this is marked resolved.
 *  [geofones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geofones/)
 * (@geofones)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-404-message/#post-580606)
 * Many thanks you are correct – going back to “default permalink structure” the
   comments work fine. I guess I will have to change the theme!
 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-404-message/#post-580607)
 * It’s nothing to do with the theme.
 *  [geofones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geofones/)
 * (@geofones)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-404-message/#post-580608)
 * nrmist – What is it to do with then? please
 *  [mrmist](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrmist/)
 * (@mrmist)
 * [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-404-message/#post-580609)
 * It’s because IIS doesn’t support .htaccess redirects.
 * No matter what theme you go for you won’t be able to use the pretty permalinks
   on your platform, unless there’s a plugin to do it on IIS.

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-404-message/#post-580609)
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