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WordPress Not Found Page -Fix 404 Error

Last updated on February 18, 2017
Posted on November 12, 2010

How to fix WordPress Not Found Page in your blog.

Actually this post idea came from one of my commenter, Lillie. She wanted to write pages content in her blog after changing home page tab and readings settings.

After she wrote page’s content, she saved it and publish the page, but when she visit the page, this wordpress not found error came up.

WordPress Not Found Page notification.

The page will be suddenly white, and it says:

“Not Found, the requested URL blog was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 not found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.”.

How does this WordPress not found error appear?

It can be caused by many things, for example, changing your wordpress permalinks. If the .htaccess permission file is not writeable, changing permalinks will cause wordpress not found page.

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Wordpress not found page error screenshot.
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In Lillie’s case, she did not even have .htaccess in her wordpress installation file folder. This apparently caused wordpress not found 404 error.

The fix?

Make the files writable, see more infos in changing file permission, or upload .htaccess file to your folder, make sure that you don’t override the existing .htaccess file.

I mean, before you upload the new .htaccess file, you have to make sure that you do not have .htaccess file.

Before you click “go” in cPanel → File Manager, click “show hidden files” this will enable you to see whether you have .htaccess file or not.

show hidden file
Show hidden file option to find htaccess file.

If you’re not sure, contact your host for support. I hope this experience will help you if you have the same 404 error wordpress not found page.

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Comments

  1. Tristan says

    November 12, 2010 at 4:51 pm

    This is a great tip! There are fewer things more annoying and heart-stopping than suddenly seeing a 404 error on your page! You’ve provided a great resource here, so thanks!

    • Kimi says

      November 14, 2010 at 6:02 am

      Hello Tristan,

      I have too, experienced this problem, it is indeed panicking if we don’t know what we did wrong.

      Especially for newbies, they may think, their blog is totally gone.

      Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment.

  2. Dan Lew says

    November 12, 2010 at 5:44 pm

    It is really amazing what you can do with htaccess, I use htaccess for many things including search engine friendly urls, redirects etc

    • Kimi says

      November 14, 2010 at 6:03 am

      Hey Dan,

      Yes, i love htaccess the most about preventing images hotlinking 🙂

      But it is pretty dangerous changing it LOL especially for newbies like me.

      Thanks for coming by and leaving a comment Dan!

  3. Rahul @ MazaKaro says

    November 13, 2010 at 12:33 am

    Hi Kimi,
    I am really going to be your fan. I have never noticed it before but your suggestions will help to fix, if I face in this case.

    I think you post regularly on your blog and I must visit it, at least once a day, and hope each time I’ll find something new here.

    Thanks a lot for your valuable information.

    • Kimi says

      November 14, 2010 at 6:07 am

      Thanks for your nice comment!

  4. Banxts says

    December 17, 2010 at 2:46 am

    Dear Kimi
    After i change default permalink to custom permalink and to migration i used advance permalink everything look like ok! but actually have a problem in the category on the sidebar, which if I click on the results not found – nothing found for index php category
    I would really appreciate for your help

    • Kimi says

      December 17, 2010 at 7:12 am

      Banxts,

      Try to disable all plugins one by one, and check if this will help.

      Good luck!

  5. Banxts says

    December 17, 2010 at 6:14 pm

    Thanks Kimi,
    I have been disable plugin like you say, but i still have problem. Any better ideas ?

    • Kimi says

      December 18, 2010 at 7:18 am

      Banxts,

      Check htaccess file, is it writeable? I have never encounter this before, if it does not help, i recommend visiting wordpress.org support forum.

      Kimi.

  6. rajeev says

    May 30, 2011 at 8:43 pm

    hey hello sir, my website had not working but when i had see your this post then it has done more much better work.
    thanking you with a huge love and your suggestion is excellent.
    once again thank you bro.

  7. daus says

    June 9, 2011 at 11:41 am

    where can i get htacess file to download?? arighhh!! im newbiew..

    • Kimi says

      June 10, 2011 at 6:42 pm

      Daus, If you have a blogspot, then you won’t have a htaccess file.

      But if you have wordpress, then it should be in file manager (cPanel) and tick on “show hidden file” this will show your htaccess file.

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