Title: Weird URLs giving 404 errors Last modified: August 22, 2016 --- # Weird URLs giving 404 errors * [turtledove100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turtledove100/) * (@turtledove100) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-urls-giving-404-errors/) * I’m not sure if this is theme related or WP related but here’s my problem: I use Flexibility 3 theme and for some reason I’m getting weird URLs listed as 404 errors in the ‘Smartphone’ section of GWT. * I realize that Flex 3 is a nonresponsive theme so I understand there will be some crawl errors as a result. But it’s what the URLs listed look like that I can’t figure out. There’s no point including my actual domain name here because nothing’s amiss on the site itself; these weird URLs only show up in my GWT acct. * But to give you an idea of what’s happening I’ll use a ‘dummy’ URL as an example: * Suppose the URL should be: [http://www.mydomainname.com/do-you-like-oranges?/](http://www.mydomainname.com/do-you-like-oranges?/) * But the 404 error has it listed as: [http://www.mydomainname.com/do-you-like-oranges?/www.mydomainname.com/they-are-really-good/](http://www.mydomainname.com/do-you-like-oranges?/www.mydomainname.com/they-are-really-good/) * So every 404 error that’s listed has: 1) the domain name repeated. 2) One specific URL that’s a completely different post on my site added after the repeated domain name. It’s always the same URL added to every error listed. * Can anybody tell me what’s going on and how I can fix this? Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [Lucas Karpiuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karpstrucking/) * (@karpstrucking) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-urls-giving-404-errors/#post-5603781) * Check the “do-you-like-oranges” page for a link to “they-are-really-good” that is missing the “[http://”](http://”); in the front of it. * Thread Starter [turtledove100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turtledove100/) * (@turtledove100) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-urls-giving-404-errors/#post-5603820) * Sorry karpstrucking — I’m not following you. Could you please clarify what you mean? * [Lucas Karpiuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karpstrucking/) * (@karpstrucking) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-urls-giving-404-errors/#post-5603832) * Go to the page that has the url “do-you-like-oranges” and edit it. Look for a link within the content to another page like “they-are-really-good” – I predict you will find that the link is missing the “[http://”](http://”); from the beginning. * Thread Starter [turtledove100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turtledove100/) * (@turtledove100) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-urls-giving-404-errors/#post-5603839) * Hey karpstrucking, Thanks for the clarification. I’ve already double checked all the links in the posts that are showing 404s and they’re all correct; none are missing the ‘[http://’](http://’); so that’s not the issue but thanks for your suggestion. * And the really odd thing to me in all this is that the URL that’s added on (and shouldn’t be) to the end of each URL listed as a 404 error is the exact same URL; its not like each 404 has a different URL added on — they all have the exact same one. * Any other suggestions? * [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/) * (@leejosepho) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-urls-giving-404-errors/#post-5603840) * I see that kind of thing every once in a while, and I am guessing that is just some kind of scraper or whatever tacking things together to see what might happen. I know nothing about how ‘bots and such look for vulnerabilities, but doing stuff like that to test security would make logical sense to me. * [Lucas Karpiuk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karpstrucking/) * (@karpstrucking) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-urls-giving-404-errors/#post-5603841) * Would you mind giving us one of the links? * Thread Starter [turtledove100](https://wordpress.org/support/users/turtledove100/) * (@turtledove100) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-urls-giving-404-errors/#post-5603936) * leejosepho — I’m not sure how this could relate to a security issue as these are google’s results from GWT. Could you please expand a bit on your explanation? * karpstrucking — I originally used dummy URLs but I’ll post the actual ones now and hopefully that’ll help you help me. 😉 * So here’s the link to one of the posts: * [http://www.digyourdog.com/portable-wireless-dog-fences-travel-pet/](http://www.digyourdog.com/portable-wireless-dog-fences-travel-pet/) * And instead of listing that URL as the 404 crawl error, here’s what GWT has listed: * [http://www.digyourdog.com/portable-wireless-dog-fences-travel-pet/www.digyourdog.com/petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review](http://www.digyourdog.com/portable-wireless-dog-fences-travel-pet/www.digyourdog.com/petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review) * So the domain name is repeated _and_ another completely different URL is added onto the end. I realize that the 404 error is due to the fact that that URL does not exist on my site but I don’t understand why google has attached the extra domain name and totally unrelated URL of a completely different post to all these links. * The ‘petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review’ part of the listing is from this post: * [http://www.digyourdog.com/petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review](http://www.digyourdog.com/petsafe-pif-300-wireless-containment-system-review) * And it’s added onto the end of every single 404 error listed in my GWT ‘Smartphone’ section. * I use Flexibility 3 theme and I’ve had one developer say he thinks this is being caused by some kind of bug in the theme but I haven’t been able to get any help from the Flexibility 3 developer or forum. * [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/) * (@leejosepho) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-urls-giving-404-errors/#post-5603937) * > leejosepho — I’m not sure how this could relate to a security issue as these > are google’s results from GWT. Could you please expand a bit on your explanation? * My thoughts there are merely guesses (or wrong assumptions stemming from some overall ignorance) related to that kind of 404 I occasionally see while working to deflect (redirect) certain malicious or undesirable traffic away even before it ever actually reaches my WordPress installations. And since those obviously cannot actually get anywhere, I did not mean to imply they are any actual danger even if they *might* be coming from malicious sources *testing* security in order to analyze its handlings of various things. * [leejosepho](https://wordpress.org/support/users/leejosepho/) * (@leejosepho) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-urls-giving-404-errors/#post-5603974) * Here is an example of my own from the Wordfence Security “Live traffic” (404) log this morning: * `Russian Federation tried to access non-existent page http://www.nnywriters.com/ https:/wordpress.org/` * To the best of my knowledge, `https:/wordpress.org/` is not present anywhere at that site. 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