404 in IE7

That’s an IE “Feature” called “Friendly HTTP Error Messages”.

If you want to see your own 404 (or anyone else’s 404 for that matter), you’ll need to get into IE’s advanced options, scroll down a bit and untick “Show Friendly HTTP Error Messages”

Ok thank you, again a new option of IE7 I’m not exactly thrilled about.
Well thanks again, I changed my settings.
Sheila

Old option actually — you’ll find it in IE6 as well.

Has anyone found a solution for the ie6 or ie7 404 issue?

Have tried increasing 404.php size, .htaccess several ways but no luck.

It does no good to change settings in my browser as it is visitors who I need to see the custom 404 page.

“Has anyone found a solution for the ie6 or ie7 404 issue?

Have tried increasing 404.php size, .htaccess several ways but no luck.

It does no good to change settings in my browser as it is visitors who I need to see the custom 404 page. “

There is no “solution”. IE would have to make the change as they are the one with the option of “friendly error messages”. I don’t know how you would override someone else’s browser setting.

Does anyone have close ties to Mr. Gates? Maybe ask if he could fix IE. lol

Has anyone successfully used the .htaccess method? I have 404notfound.htm pages working fine in both browsers on non-WP sites but cannot get the WP 404.php to function properly.

I have a fairly complicated setup using multiple installs of WP working together with several plugins and customizations and everthing works perfectly except when a public user clicks a private post category they get the default 404 in IE.

A simple solution has been to add a public post to the private category but would rather have non-registered user directed to custom 404.php with directions and links to register. The downfall with this method is I do not want the registered member to see the public post, it is just in the way. To avoid this I have set the timestamp back so the public post is forced below the private post.

Hope this helps others who have similar issue.