Bad URL sends 200 (not 404)

  • I have a couple of blogs running on WordPress 2.5.1 installs. When I access a bogus URL at any of my sites, I get a 200 status code back from the server, instead of the desired 404 code. The custom 404 page that I created is displayed, but the response code from the server doesn’t match. Here are a few notes:

    1. I updated my theme’s 404.php file as specified here in the Codex. This made no change in what was returned.
    2. I’m not using a static page as my front page (I’m aware of bug 6539).

    Am I missing something obvious here? Why should I still be getting a 200 response when I explicitly modify the 404.php header calls?

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  • I got a 404 here:

    https://blog.borngeek.com/asdasasdasdasdasd

    GET /asdasasdasdasdasd HTTP/1.1
Host: blog.borngeek.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080404 Firefox/2.0.0.14
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 30
Connection: keep-alive

HTTP/1.x 404 Not Found
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:28:04 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.61 (Unix) PHP/4.4.7 mod_ssl/2.0.61 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 Phusion_Passenger/1.9.0 DAV/2 SVN/1.4.2
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.6
X-Pingback: https://blog.borngeek.com/xmlrpc.php
Expires: Wed, 11 Jan 1984 05:00:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate, max-age=0
Pragma: no-cache
Last-Modified: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:28:05 GMT
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 2637
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
    Thread Starter jgbishop

    (@jgbishop)

    I’ve seen the 404 returned in Firebug, but my Apache logs return 200 status codes for each bad URL. Any idea why Apache wouldn’t behave properly?

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