Wordpress Hijacks 404

**Rye Seronie Oh** · 03-25-2006, 07:42 PM

I tried to ask this over on the WordPress Support site, but no one has gotten back to it in forever. I was going to search the site, but their search wasn't working so I just posted again. Anyhow, what's happening is this:

I have the Permalinks making friendly URLs and it's causing it to take over my everything. I want to have a custom 404 that is not the WP 404 page. The main problem is that when someone gets a 404, it redirects then to index.php and that causes my stats to be showing a ton of hits that are really just 404s.

I tried adding "ErrorDocument 404 whatever.html" and nothing happens. It continues to go to index.php on a 404. Or any other site error for that matter. My htaccess file says this:

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

Perhaps someone can help me take back my 404 page control?

**Gwaihir** · 03-26-2006, 07:13 PM

Does that WP 404 page actually send a 404 header, or does it give your browser the "normal" 200 instead?

Indeed you reroute all through WP now (so putting up an extra 404 page won't help), but I would hope the stats can handle it anyway as long as WP throws proper 404 headers.

If it's the site in your signature: that doesn't seem to throw 404s at all or give me any indication when a URL doens't exist. It just feeds me the home page like all is fine. If they won't fix that, I'm afraid you need to dig into WordPress yourself, and tell it to throw a 404 when appropriate.

**Vin DSL** · 03-26-2006, 08:00 PM

I would try...

Code:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
ErrorDocument 400 http://www.example.com/errordocs/400.php
ErrorDocument 401 http://www.example.com/errordocs/401.php
ErrorDocument 403 http://www.example.com/errordocs/403.php
ErrorDocument 404 http://www.example.com/errordocs/404.php
ErrorDocument 405 http://www.example.com/errordocs/405.php
ErrorDocument 406 http://www.example.com/errordocs/406.php
ErrorDocument 408 http://www.example.com/errordocs/408.php
ErrorDocument 410 http://www.example.com/errordocs/410.php
ErrorDocument 411 http://www.example.com/errordocs/411.php
ErrorDocument 414 http://www.example.com/errordocs/414.php
ErrorDocument 500 http://www.example.com/errordocs/500.php
ErrorDocument 503 http://www.example.com/errordocs/503.php
# END WordPress

...or not! (Been hangin' around Ron too long)

**Vin DSL** · 03-26-2006, 08:06 PM

Heh!

BTW, this might give you some ideas on making suitable errordoc files...

http://www.plinko.net/404/default.asp

**Rye Seronie Oh** · 03-26-2006, 08:13 PM

Okay, I made http://www.sparkeh.com/404.php and set it up in htaccess with the ErrorDocument thing. I had tried that to no avail, and it still doesn't work.

I put a 404 in my template folder ~/public_html/blog/wp-themes/theme/404.php and it shows up now as the 404. I dunno if it returns the 404 error code or 200.

I use TrackPro 2 as my stats. It records all hits to just index.php and with all the 404s going onto index.php, that makes it useless to have the stats. That's the big issue. I just want to count hits to the index.php that aren't related to 404.

Wordpress' automated permalink system has changed. It use to show every single link that it made, but now it seems to just make anything go to wordpress and that is annoying. I don't know enough about htaccess to recreate it the way it used to be really. I could manually do it, but the categories and archives wouldn't work right.

I posted on the WP forums and there still is no reply so I guess no one there knows or hasn't seen it.

Any ideas now?

Edit: According to this http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...m%2 Fnotfound it seems as if a wrong URL does return a 404 error even if it is showing the wordpress 404.

I just want my own 404 so that i can use TrackPro correctly.

**Vin DSL** · 03-26-2006, 08:14 PM

This is why I like 'answering' questions... it gives me ideas too!

Here's a custom 404 page, done right!

http://www.apple.com/nothere.htm

Allow people to go somewhere other than back.
Include a link to email the webmaster or a form to submit broken links.
Include a search box to search the site.
List the links on the site that are similar to what was entered, in order to guess what they were looking for.

**Vin DSL** · 03-26-2006, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Rye Seronie Oh

Okay, I made http://www.sparkeh.com/404.php and set it up in htaccess with the ErrorDocument thing. I had tried that to no avail, and it still doesn't work...

Aha! How about something like this?

Code:

ErrorDocument 404 http://www.example.com/errordocs/404/index.php

I'm flying blind here...

**Vin DSL** · 03-26-2006, 08:21 PM

I suppose I could go try it on my own WP install, huh?

**Rye Seronie Oh** · 03-26-2006, 08:21 PM

Nothing is working. Wordpress is taking over everything. Is there a way to make that htaccess have an exception for files that are found or something? That appears to be what I need.

**Rye Seronie Oh** · 03-26-2006, 08:22 PM

Originally Posted by Vin DSL

I suppose I could go try it on my own WP install, huh?

Perhaps you could post your htaccess for wordpress? That might be the old style that I can use...

**Vin DSL** · 03-26-2006, 08:50 PM

LoL! Hold on... I'm getting there...

Good URL: http://lenon.info/index.php (response header 200)

Bad URL: http://lenon.info/foo.php (response header 404)

Um... I'm hungry... gotta eat some 'breakfast'... BRB...

**Rye Seronie Oh** · 03-26-2006, 10:12 PM

Haha.. I just saw checked that out and it appears that your "foo.php" sends you into the Wordpress 404 file just as mine does. I guess, with the way wordpress has changed their permalink htaccess code, my only true resolution is going to be to move the blog into /blog and not run it out of the root. I didn't wanna have to do that but it's starting to look like there isn't another resolution..

**Vin DSL** · 03-26-2006, 10:26 PM

Well, You're basically watching me work, while eating breakfast, so you can expect a *belch* here n' there.

Um... I'm not sure what you're referring to. When I click the 'foo.php' link (now), it takes me to the search feature on my blog... Is that what you're talking about?

**jason** · 03-26-2006, 10:38 PM

These two lines:

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

are filtering anythink that is not a file (!-f) and not a directory (!-d) into WordPress, so the ErrorDocument code is never firing.

You could always go back to the old style rewites:

Code:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^log/category/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?category_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^log/category/?(.*) /index.php?category_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^log/author/(.*)/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?author_name=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^log/author/?(.*) /index.php?author_name=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^log/([0-9]+)?([0-9]+)?/?$ /index.php?p=$1&page=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^log/([0-9]+)?/(feed|rdf|rss|rss2|atom)/?$ /wp-feed.php?p=$1&feed=$2 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^log/([0-9]+)?/trackback/?$ /wp-trackback.php?p=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1 [QSA]
RewriteRule ^comments/feed/?([_0-9a-z-]+)?/?$ /wp-feed.php?feed=$1&withcomments=1 [QSA]

Some of the directives may have changed a little since that file was created (I grabbed it from an old backup), but that should get you started.

--Jason

**Rye Seronie Oh** · 03-26-2006, 10:44 PM

Excellent, Jason. I wonder why Wordpress has switched to that? You'd think they'd be a little more careful than to just snatch up every single file on the site. I guess it's great to support their 404 thing, but it really messes up my stats.

Thanks for the explanation. I knew it had to be in those two lines but wasn't sure how it worked.

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