404页面不会显示/没有.htaccess Wordpress

Question

I want to show my 404 error page when ever someone gets on a non working / non created page. After a long time of searching on the web I couldnt find any solution so I post one myself. I dont have any .htaccess file either i created it filled it in but in my FTP it kept saying nothing was safed in there and it didnt show any bytes so thats something im also worried of.

So how can i get my .htaccess file to work and show my 404 Error page template? I followed all the steps to make a 404.php file but i dont mind it to be redirected to the same template I made for it but then as a page any of those solutions is fine.

Answer 1

You've got some rewrite rules in your .htaccess file that are preventing a 404 error from every truly happening...

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f 
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d 
RewriteRule . /index.php [L] 

That basically states that if the requested resource is neither a file nor a directory (basically a 404 error), redirect to /index.php

Try this in your .htaccess:

# BEGIN WordPress 
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c> 
RewriteEngine On 
RewriteBase / 

# delete the line below to have /index.php/anything trigger a 404
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L] 

</IfModule> 
# END WordPress

#404 redirect
ErrorDocument 404 /httpdocs/wp-content/themes/avian/404.php 

Note This may make Wordpress quite unhappy however, I'm not sure how it uses internal routing, it may rely on breaking 404s to determine which pages to load by using fake (RESTful) URLs - reinstating 404 errors make cause Wordpress to stop working properly ... I am, however, no expert on it having barely ever touched it.