mtaylor924

No amount of google searching has provided an answer – everything either points back to this post, or talks about creating a custom 404.php.

Any other ideas?

Hi iridiax,

Yes, I have a separate 404.php page, which shows up successfully when I type in a URL for a permalink that doesn’t exist.

My 404 page does show a sitemap as well, to help people who type in the wrong URL. It uses html comment code to activate a sitemap plugin. But the template on my 404 is different from the rest of the site so I know for a fact that the /sitemap/ permalink I see in FF or IE is not my 404 page.

Also, removing the plugin html comment code and writing in my sitemap info by hand doesn’t solve the problem – the “/sitemap/” permalink still returns a 404, despite serving the proper content.

Anyone?

Sorry to keep bumping, but the problem still exists. Does anyone have any ideas?

Still haven’t fixed the problem…can anyone take a look and let me know if I’m missing something obvious?

My permalink structure is “/%category%/%postname%/”
When writing Pages (capital P) in WP that have no parent Page, they automatically default to “/page-slug/” only. At least that’s how they have been for all main level Pages, and only this one has the problem.

Can anyone take a look and let me know what I’m missing?

https://www.thescenestealers.org/

OK…this gets weirder…
I changed the permalink from “/sitemap/” to “/sitemap1/” and it gave code 200, as it should.

After changing permalink back to “/sitemap/” it gives 404 again! What gives? Does WP have something against this particular permalink?

Nope, that didn’t work. I deleted the page under “manage pages” then created a new page under “write page”. Again, the content appears correctly in the browser but the server gives code 404, meaning the content will be invisible to search engines.