Comments on: 404 Not Found

Question: 404 Not Found

lou — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:40:56 -0800

Why are the 404 pages on my server broken?! I get a 500 Internal Server Error instead. Link to my .htaccess inside.

Here's my webpage.

Here's what happens when you go to a page that doesn't exist.

But I get an Internal Server Error instead!

Now, I'm suspecting that the problem lies in my .htaccess file, but I can't be certain. I can't link directly to it, because you get the 403 Forbidden page, properly. So here's the text file version of its exact contents.

Any suggestions? Anything I'm overlooking??

By: lou

lou — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:41:55 -0800

I should add that this has been going on for a very long time now, so I can't remember what happened that broke it. It used to work, many years ago. I'm finally getting around to fixing it....

By: hattifattener

hattifattener — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 10:49:09 -0800

What does the Apache error log say?

By: Freaky

Freaky — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:08:04 -0800

It's your Wordpress rewrite rule:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

If the request filename isn't a file or directory, rewrite to index.php. index.php 500's, and any request which would 404 gets rewritten to it.

By: lou

lou — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:57:37 -0800

That's it, the Wordpress thing. I got rid of it and so far nothing appears to have broken, so now have to figure out what it was doing there in the first place. Thanks!