Title: Random 404 errors in Dashboard
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Random 404 errors in Dashboard

 *  [Geek2Nurse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geek2nurse/)
 * (@geek2nurse)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-404-errors-in-dashboard/)
 * This has been going on for a while, but I was up to my ears in grad school and
   didn’t have time to search the forums, so I’ve just been living with it. Tonight
   I’ve been trying to find the cause, and haven’t been able to find anything in
   the forums that seems to match my problem.
 * I get random 404 errors when working on site admin functions in Dashboard; mostly,
   but not always, when upgrading themes and plugins. If I back up and try again,
   it will finally work on the 2nd or 3rd try.
 * Another issue which I suspect is related is that when I try to automatically 
   upgrade to a new WP version, the site will more often than not get “stuck” in
   maintenance mode, and then I have to FTP in, delete the .maintenance file, and
   re-try the upgrade.
 * This is happening on multiple sites, in multiple browsers (Firefox and Chrome)
   and has been going on through the past several WP versions, so I think the problem
   has to be at the server end of things. (My sites are hosted on Dreamhost, FWIW.)
 * Any idea what is causing these issues?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-404-errors-in-dashboard/#post-2104402)
 * Have you tried:
 * – deactivating **all** plugins to see if this resolves the problem. If this works,
   re-activate the plugins one by one until you find the problematic plugin(s).
 * – switching to the Twenty Ten theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.
 * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F)
   by FTP or PhpMyAdmin. Sometimes, an apparently inactive plugin can still cause
   problems.
 *  Thread Starter [Geek2Nurse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geek2nurse/)
 * (@geek2nurse)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-404-errors-in-dashboard/#post-2104413)
 * Last night I encountered both of these problems in a brand new out-of-the-box
   WP installation (via Dreamhost one-click install) that I was setting up for a
   friend. I hadn’t even had time to change anything yet; logged in as admin for
   the first time and got the 404 error, tried again, got in, clicked the link to
   upgrade to the latest version, and got the “stuck in maintenance mode” problem.
 * Given that, I’ve pretty much ruled out plugins, themes, etc. as the cause. I 
   already suspected that was the case, since it happens on all of the multiple 
   different WP installations (around 26 of them at last count) that I manage, all
   with different combinations of themes / plugins / etc.
 * It has to be a server-side issue. I’m just not tech-savvy enough any more to 
   know how to troubleshoot it or what to look for (I think all my geek memory spaces
   were overwritten during nursing school and grad school). 🙁

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 * [dashboard](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/dashboard/)

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 * Last reply from: [Geek2Nurse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geek2nurse/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/random-404-errors-in-dashboard/#post-2104413)
 * Status: not resolved

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