Thanks!! That did it.. got a working 404 page!!
Ahh.. I do believe that is what I was looking for.. Thank you!!!
Umm.. I AM my webhost.. I run the wordpress site on an Ubuntu Linux virtual server. The issue seems to be the fact I’m a newbie to WP and am not sure if the problem is arising from Apache or WordPress..
Thanks for the reply.. I understand about the permissions on .htaccess, and I’ve set them to 660, and I don’t get the warning when setting permalinks that I need to change them, such that I believe WP is setting them in .htaccess for me, however, despite that, I still get the published page permalink showing as http://myhost.com/wordpress/page, instead of the custom setting i’m trying to use which is the day/date permalink setting.. Even if I then hit publish on this page, the system does not save the page into http://myhost.com/wordpress, such that when I try to view the page, there is nothing there… What am I missing??
Dave