Comments on: How to Fix WordPress 404 Page Not Working on Fasthosts Servers http://www.laptop-millionaire.com/how-to-build-a-blog/how-to-fix-wordpress-404-page-not-working-on-fasthosts-servers Blogging Tips: How to Make Money From Your Blog Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:50:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Ben Morris http://www.laptop-millionaire.com/how-to-build-a-blog/how-to-fix-wordpress-404-page-not-working-on-fasthosts-servers/comment-page-1#comment-14 Ben Morris Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:29:48 +0000 http://www.laptop-millionaire.com/?p=653#comment-14 The downside is that you won't get a 404 HTTP status code being returned with this method, which is kind of the point with 404 pages (it tells search engines that the page does not exist). Setting the status code using a PHP header() command doesn't seem to do the job on Fasthost-hosted sites either... have spent a long evening trudging through this and the only conclusion is to change hosting provider... The downside is that you won’t get a 404 HTTP status code being returned with this method, which is kind of the point with 404 pages (it tells search engines that the page does not exist).

Setting the status code using a PHP header() command doesn’t seem to do the job on Fasthost-hosted sites either… have spent a long evening trudging through this and the only conclusion is to change hosting provider…

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