Title: Incorrect 404
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Incorrect 404

 *  Resolved [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-404/)
 * This is an odd one, never had it in many previous installs…
 * Instead of the WP 404, it’s delivering a different one – a non-WP static page
   specified in my root .htaccess.
 * The directory in which WP operates has its own .htaccess – with no mention of
   any 404 (which seems usual, because I can’t ever recall seeing any such info 
   in a WP .htaccess).
 * From a codex suggestion, I’ve added ‘ErrorDocument 404 /test/1/index.php?error
   =404’ to that .htaccess, but to no effect.

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 *  [Tanveer Sure](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tsure/)
 * (@tsure)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-404/#post-7204466)
 * Hi Gulliver,
 * Referring to the link mentioned here: [https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Error_404_Page](https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_an_Error_404_Page)
   which you must have already read, is your WordPress installed in a directory 
   called test/1 ?
 * Also, if you could lay out your directory structure that would be very helpful.
 * Thanks,
    Tanveer
 *  Thread Starter [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-404/#post-7204469)
 * >@tsure
 * Thanks.
 * Sorry the error was mine… ‘screen blindness’ in not noticing that the browser
   had auto-completed the url to an earlier one which was minus the appropriate 
   path to the WP install (which I use for tests of new code, plugins, etc) and 
   hence triggering the non-WP 404.
 * With better glasses, and more careful attention, I should be ok. 😉

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 * Last reply from: [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/incorrect-404/#post-7204469)
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