Comments on: Disabling WordPress 404 handling using .htaccess

By: David

David — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:25:42 +0000

Hi,

This code solved the WP 404 hijacking of my site, but permalinks now seem to be broken (404′d ironically!).

I use the ‘www.site.com/myblog/archives/year/month/date/post-title/’ format. And edited your code to suit:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^archives/.*$ /index.php [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^myblog/.*$ /index.php [L]

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:22:35 +0000

I wrote this code specifically because WP’s 404 was stomping all over other projects which provided their own 404 mechanism. But I suppose that some might prefer to only show a normal 404 for media like you specified. It wasn’t what I was going for.

By: mrclay

mrclay — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:31:48 +0000

Another option, place this in the RewriteConds:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !\.(gif|png|jpg|js|css)$

It doesn’t catch as much, but for most HTML requests I’d think you’d *want* WP’s nicer 404 page.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:15:26 +0000

Ah, thanks for this hint.

By: tom moody

tom moody — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:49:00 +0000

Whoops, I had to change it back.
It broke the ability to page back on search results pages.
Any ideas?

By: tom moody

tom moody — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:33:30 +0000

Thanks, this was very helpful.