Title: PingBacks Give 404
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# PingBacks Give 404

 *  [beano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beano/)
 * (@beano)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-give-404/)
 * I’ve updated from 2.0.2 to 2.1.2 recently and have the following problem.
 * When I try to add extra RPC calls through “Update Services” on the Writing Options
   page, I sometimes get a 404, but this only seems to happen if the URI has a .
   in the name, ie if it points to a specific file rather than a directory, eg:
   
   [http://www.britishblogs.co.uk/xmlrpc.php](http://www.britishblogs.co.uk/xmlrpc.php)
 * I then wrote a post, describing the problem at [http://nerd.steveferson.com/2007/03/16/wordpress-problems-updating-settings/](http://nerd.steveferson.com/2007/03/16/wordpress-problems-updating-settings/)
 * And got a 404 when I included one of the same URLs. Being a novice at this I 
   can only assume WordPress automatically tries to PingBack any URLs included in
   the entry. There doesn’t seem to be a problem with ordinary links though, as 
   I had no problem linking to a web page (.cfm) and a PDF (.pdf) in other posts.
 * Any ideas what’s happening?

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 * [notfound](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/notfound/)
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 * [pingback](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pingback/)
 * [update services](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/update-services/)

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 * Last reply from: [beano](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beano/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/pingbacks-give-404/)
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