[wp-hackers] 404 Pages displaying as blank

[Leon Ash]

Dion and Otto,

I'm currently testing and playing on http://preview.tawnylion.com

I've followed Dion's suggestion of completely removing the htaccess/ 
redirection.

If I remove the IIS6 custom 404 handler pointing to /index.php? 
error=404 then the 'home' page works, but nothing else. Everything  
returns 404 pages?
With the /index.php?error=404 on the IIS6 custom handler all works  
whether I have .htaccess or not. All, except the 'real' 404 errors.

L


On Sep 3, 2009, at 8:10 PM, Otto wrote:

> WordPress handles 404's internally. You don't need to define a custom
> error page. Just let it redirect to the index.php like normal.
>
> The 404 page served by WordPress is whatever is in 404.php in your
> theme directory.
>
> -Otto
> Sent from Memphis, TN, United States
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 3, 2009 at 6:34 AM,
> leon.ash at tawnylion.com<leon.ash at tawnylion.com> wrote:
>> Apologies if this is either a new thread or multiple mails. I  
>> haven't used
>> a mailing list for a couple of years.
>>
>> I'm unable to access my hosted files from my current location so  
>> can't
>> remove the redirection. Will be able to do so in about 5-6 hours  
>> and will
>> report outcome here. If you wanted to 'see' what I have I have done a
>> 'vanilla' install at preview.tawnylion.com that is currently  
>> configured to
>> /%postname% as permalinks and the 'default' redirection of
>>
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteBase /
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
>> RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
>> RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
>>
>> If my memory serves me right with a default install, using the  
>> default
>> permalinks settings I kept getting the index page. This is with IIS6
>> configured to a custom error page of /index.php?error=404.
>>
>> With redirection as described it displays blank as it 'dies'  
>> somewhere
>> whilst processing the 404.php file
>>
>> L
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>  From: "Dion Hulse (dd32)" <wordpress at dd32.id.au>
>> Sent: 03 September 2009 12:13
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] 404 Pages displaying as blank
>>
>> Yep, I meant disabling the use of rewrites all together.
>>
>> On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:07:29 +1000, leon.ash at tawnylion.com
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dion,
>>>
>>> I have WP_Debug defined as true and there are no 'error' message  
>>> that I
>>> can
>>> see. I know the log is working as I get the error_log output :-)
>>>
>>> When you say disable rewriting, what do you mean. Remove the  
>>> 'default'
>>> entries from .htaccess and switch of permalinks?
>>>
>>> L
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------
>>> From: "leon.ash at tawnylion.com"
>>> Sent: 03 September 2009 11:42
>>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>>> Subject: 404 Pages displaying as blank
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I'm experiencing a strange problem I'm hoping someone here may  
>>> have some
>>> suggestions on how to solve.
>>>
>>> I started a thread here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/305273  
>>> but
>>> haven't received any replies. To save me having to retype it all I'd
>>> appreciate it if you could look there for the details.
>>>
>>> In summary I've got my first WordPress site up and running with  
>>> rewrites
>>> working as expected for everything apart from one small, but  
>>> annoying
>>> glitch.
>>>
>>> My 404 pages are all shown as 'blank' pages. If you look at the  
>>> details
>>> I've confirmed this behaviour on a fresh install with no plugins.
>>> Pemalinks
>>> is set to /%postname%/, the site is hosted on IIS 6 and has  
>>> Helicon's
>>> ISAPI_Rewrite installed.
>>>
>>> I've inserted error_log statments into parse_query in classes.php  
>>> and
>> can
>>> confirm that the 'query' for 404 pages is 'name=error=404&page='.  
>>> The
>>> headers of returned pages indicate a 404 Not Found code, but the  
>>> pages
>>> are
>>> blank. This implies the rewriting is fine.
>>>
>>> The last interesting thing is that I also added error_log statements
>> into
>>> many of the theme files and the 'log entries' per invalid url  
>>> request
>>> terminate in different components of the 'theme'. Details in post.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions and help appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>> Leon
>>>
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