Everything redirects to the main directory !?!?

  • Greetings,

    How can I keep everything that’s mis-typed from going to my site’s default page? Here’s my .htaccess:


    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    # END WordPress

    Essentially, I want to be able to make myself a 404 page and have it work, as well as keep from having every single url come up as valid on the site. It doesn’t even redirect when you go to /whateveryouwant — it just renders the /index.php while keeping /whateveryouwant in the URL bar.

    What am I missing?

    Thanks in advance,

    -Daniel (dmiessler.com/thispagedoesntexist)

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  • they changed some weird stuff in WordPress 2.x

    i couldnt figure out WHY they made the change to the 404 system.

    check out my other thread:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/68979?replies=3

    basically, since everything is sent to your /index.php, you need to set your index.php up to handle 404s using WordPress.

    i added this to the top of my index.php:

    if (is_404())
    {
    require(“/path/to/404.php”);
    exit;
    }

    you may need to change some other of your pages’ code to get 404s working just right.

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