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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Mysterious 404 error, reports of site being down, but site still loads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-404-error-reports-of-site-being-down-but-site-still-loads/)
 *  Thread Starter [comradesteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/comradesteve/)
 * (@comradesteve)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-404-error-reports-of-site-being-down-but-site-still-loads/#post-5620423)
 * Also, thanks for the help on this, Florian!
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Mysterious 404 error, reports of site being down, but site still loads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-404-error-reports-of-site-being-down-but-site-still-loads/)
 *  Thread Starter [comradesteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/comradesteve/)
 * (@comradesteve)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-404-error-reports-of-site-being-down-but-site-still-loads/#post-5620422)
 * So, it looks like it was the .htaccess file. I reverted it to the basic WP one
   from [this page](http://codex.wordpress.org/htaccess) that looks like the text
   below and the 404 error goes away.
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
       # END WordPress
   
       The plugins are still active and the error is gone, so it was some combination of speed optimization plugins that made changes to the .htaccess file that is to blame. I was messing around a lot and ended up with this, any idea what might be to blame? I've copied the offending .htaccess code below. I would like to retain the changes I made (minus the 404, obviously) because it sped up the page significantly. Thanks! 
   
       ## EXPIRES CACHING ##
       <IfModule mod_expires.c>
       ExpiresActive On
       ExpiresByType image/jpg "access plus 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/jpeg "access plus 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/gif "access plus 1 year"
       ExpiresByType image/png "access plus 1 year"
       ExpiresByType text/css "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType application/pdf "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType text/x-javascript "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType application/x-shockwave-flash "access plus 1 month"
       ExpiresByType image/x-icon "access plus 1 year"
       ExpiresDefault "access plus 2 days"
       </IfModule>
       ## EXPIRES CACHING ## 
   
       ## mod deflate ##
   
       AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript
   
       ## mod deflate ##
   
       # BEGIN WPSuperCache
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       #If you serve pages from behind a proxy you may want to change 'RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on' to something more sensible
       AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
       RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(2.0\ MMP|240x320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800).* [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} !^(w3c\ |w3c-|acs-|alav|alca|amoi|audi|avan|benq|bird|blac|blaz|brew|cell|cldc|cmd-|dang|doco|eric|hipt|htc_|inno|ipaq|ipod|jigs|kddi|keji|leno|lg-c|lg-d|lg-g|lge-|lg/u|maui|maxo|midp|mits|mmef|mobi|mot-|moto|mwbp|nec-|newt|noki|palm|pana|pant|phil|play|port|prox|qwap|sage|sams|sany|sch-|sec-|send|seri|sgh-|shar|sie-|siem|smal|smar|sony|sph-|symb|t-mo|teli|tim-|tosh|tsm-|upg1|upsi|vk-v|voda|wap-|wapa|wapi|wapp|wapr|webc|winw|winw|xda\ |xda-).* [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
       RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
       RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/comcyc/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index-https.html.gz -f
       RewriteRule ^(.*) "/comcyc/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index-https.html.gz" [L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
       RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(2.0\ MMP|240x320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800).* [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} !^(w3c\ |w3c-|acs-|alav|alca|amoi|audi|avan|benq|bird|blac|blaz|brew|cell|cldc|cmd-|dang|doco|eric|hipt|htc_|inno|ipaq|ipod|jigs|kddi|keji|leno|lg-c|lg-d|lg-g|lge-|lg/u|maui|maxo|midp|mits|mmef|mobi|mot-|moto|mwbp|nec-|newt|noki|palm|pana|pant|phil|play|port|prox|qwap|sage|sams|sany|sch-|sec-|send|seri|sgh-|shar|sie-|siem|smal|smar|sony|sph-|symb|t-mo|teli|tim-|tosh|tsm-|upg1|upsi|vk-v|voda|wap-|wapa|wapi|wapp|wapr|webc|winw|winw|xda\ |xda-).* [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
       RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
       RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/comcyc/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index.html.gz -f
       RewriteRule ^(.*) "/comcyc/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index.html.gz" [L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
       RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(2.0\ MMP|240x320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800).* [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} !^(w3c\ |w3c-|acs-|alav|alca|amoi|audi|avan|benq|bird|blac|blaz|brew|cell|cldc|cmd-|dang|doco|eric|hipt|htc_|inno|ipaq|ipod|jigs|kddi|keji|leno|lg-c|lg-d|lg-g|lge-|lg/u|maui|maxo|midp|mits|mmef|mobi|mot-|moto|mwbp|nec-|newt|noki|palm|pana|pant|phil|play|port|prox|qwap|sage|sams|sany|sch-|sec-|send|seri|sgh-|shar|sie-|siem|smal|smar|sony|sph-|symb|t-mo|teli|tim-|tosh|tsm-|upg1|upsi|vk-v|voda|wap-|wapa|wapi|wapp|wapr|webc|winw|winw|xda\ |xda-).* [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTPS} on
       RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/comcyc/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index-https.html -f
       RewriteRule ^(.*) "/comcyc/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index-https.html" [L]
   
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*[^/]$
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^.*//.*$
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !POST
       RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*=.*
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Cookie} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress_logged_in|wp-postpass_).*$
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Wap-Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP:Profile} !^[a-z0-9\"]+ [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} !^.*(2.0\ MMP|240x320|400X240|AvantGo|BlackBerry|Blazer|Cellphone|Danger|DoCoMo|Elaine/3.0|EudoraWeb|Googlebot-Mobile|hiptop|IEMobile|KYOCERA/WX310K|LG/U990|MIDP-2.|MMEF20|MOT-V|NetFront|Newt|Nintendo\ Wii|Nitro|Nokia|Opera\ Mini|Palm|PlayStation\ Portable|portalmmm|Proxinet|ProxiNet|SHARP-TQ-GX10|SHG-i900|Small|SonyEricsson|Symbian\ OS|SymbianOS|TS21i-10|UP.Browser|UP.Link|webOS|Windows\ CE|WinWAP|YahooSeeker/M1A1-R2D2|iPhone|iPod|Android|BlackBerry9530|LG-TU915\ Obigo|LGE\ VX|webOS|Nokia5800).* [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTP_user_agent} !^(w3c\ |w3c-|acs-|alav|alca|amoi|audi|avan|benq|bird|blac|blaz|brew|cell|cldc|cmd-|dang|doco|eric|hipt|htc_|inno|ipaq|ipod|jigs|kddi|keji|leno|lg-c|lg-d|lg-g|lge-|lg/u|maui|maxo|midp|mits|mmef|mobi|mot-|moto|mwbp|nec-|newt|noki|palm|pana|pant|phil|play|port|prox|qwap|sage|sams|sany|sch-|sec-|send|seri|sgh-|shar|sie-|siem|smal|smar|sony|sph-|symb|t-mo|teli|tim-|tosh|tsm-|upg1|upsi|vk-v|voda|wap-|wapa|wapi|wapp|wapr|webc|winw|winw|xda\ |xda-).* [NC]
       RewriteCond %{HTTPS} !on
       RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/comcyc/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index.html -f
       RewriteRule ^(.*) "/comcyc/wordpress/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{SERVER_NAME}/$1/index.html" [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WPSuperCache
   
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Mysterious 404 error, reports of site being down, but site still loads](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-404-error-reports-of-site-being-down-but-site-still-loads/)
 *  Thread Starter [comradesteve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/comradesteve/)
 * (@comradesteve)
 * [11 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysterious-404-error-reports-of-site-being-down-but-site-still-loads/#post-5620386)
 * I spoke with my hosting company on the phone, and they couldn’t find anything
   wrong on their end. Is there something more specific I should mention other than
   a 404 error is coming up?

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