Comments on: External Files Causing a WordPress 404 Error? http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/ Ardamis is a tiny web development studio specializing in high-quality, handmade web sites. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:12:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: web dev guy http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-26996 web dev guy Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:29:45 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-26996 I use pages instead of posts, and comment #2 worked like a charm for me. Simply adding : <code> header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK"); header("Status: 200 All rosy") ; </code> to the index.php in the project root was the key. I use pages instead of posts, and comment #2 worked like a charm for me.

Simply adding :


 header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
 header("Status: 200 All rosy") ;

to the index.php in the project root was the key.

]]> By: Daniel Noll http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-24127 Daniel Noll Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:36:57 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-24127 Thank you so much for this. I was pulling my hair out with 404 errors, eventually to the point where Googlebot wasn't seeing half my site. Thank you so much for this. I was pulling my hair out with 404 errors, eventually to the point where Googlebot wasn’t seeing half my site.

]]> By: Jordan http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-21442 Jordan Thu, 01 Oct 2009 17:58:00 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-21442 We had exactly this problem on our website – thank you for sharing the code. Fixes it perfectly! We had exactly this problem on our website – thank you for sharing the code. Fixes it perfectly!

]]> By: Jake http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-19022 Jake Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:35:09 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-19022 This page really help me a lot. Thanks a lot. I had been trying to figure for 1 hr why I am getting a 404 when everything else seem right This page really help me a lot. Thanks a lot. I had been trying to figure for 1 hr why I am getting a 404 when everything else seem right

]]> By: Uk shore http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-17926 Uk shore Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:51:57 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-17926 Thanks xurizaemon and ardamin, I've spent over two hours fiddling with the .htaccess file to make the 404s go away (google webmasters kept saying some of my non-blog pages didn't exist), and the .htaccess wasn't even the issue - it was the wp-blog-header file... Thanks again! Thanks xurizaemon and ardamin,
I’ve spent over two hours fiddling with the .htaccess file to make the 404s go away (google webmasters kept saying some of my non-blog pages didn’t exist), and the .htaccess wasn’t even the issue – it was the wp-blog-header file…
Thanks again!

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]]> By: xurizaemon http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-552 xurizaemon Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:26:20 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-552 If you don't add the Status: header, you still get a "Status: 404 File Not Found" - which is NOT a 404 header per se, but still not really meant to be there. There may be a more correct 200 Status header, but that works :) http://paperfish.co.nz/paperfish/wp-content/themes/paperfish/paperfish-js.php is the evaluated JS file If you don’t add the Status: header, you still get a “Status: 404 File Not Found” – which is NOT a 404 header per se, but still not really meant to be there. There may be a more correct 200 Status header, but that works :)

http://paperfish.co.nz/paperfish/wp-content/themes/paperfish/paperfish-js.php is the evaluated JS file

]]> By: xurizaemon http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-551 xurizaemon Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:24:59 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-551 I made a similar workaround, but not using have_posts() because I wasn't using posts. Instead I wanted to insert WP functions in a js.php file - which obviously doesn't want WP throwing in its templating. Here's my fix, via a link to the Trac ticket on trac.wordpress.org: http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2984 <code> <? define('WP_USE_THEMES', false) ; require('../../../wp-blog-header.php'); header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK"); header("Status: 200 All rosy") ; ?> </code> Works a treat over at http://paperfish.co.nz/paperfish/ - see http://paperfish.co.nz/paperfish/wp-content/themes/paperfish/paperfish-js.phps I made a similar workaround, but not using have_posts() because I wasn’t using posts.

Instead I wanted to insert WP functions in a js.php file – which obviously doesn’t want WP throwing in its templating.

Here’s my fix, via a link to the Trac ticket on trac.wordpress.org:

http://trac.wordpress.org/ticket/2984


<?
  define('WP_USE_THEMES', false) ;
  require('../../../wp-blog-header.php');
  header("HTTP/1.1 200 OK");
  header("Status: 200 All rosy") ;
 ?>

Works a treat over at http://paperfish.co.nz/paperfish/ – see http://paperfish.co.nz/paperfish/wp-content/themes/paperfish/paperfish-js.phps

]]> By: Scrivs http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-236 Scrivs Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:45:06 +0000 http://www.ardamis.com/2006/07/10/wordpress-googlebot-404-error/#comment-236 You might have found a solution for this already, but we were having the same problem at <a href="http://9rules.com/" rel="nofollow">9rules</a> and I found that sticking this line of code worked for us. < ?php if (!have_posts()) { header('HTTP/1.1 200 OK'); } ?> It forces WP to throw a 200 code to all robots instead of the 404 so they can spider and index all of your pages. Hope that helped some if you still needed it. You might have found a solution for this already, but we were having the same problem at 9rules and I found that sticking this line of code worked for us.

< ?php if (!have_posts()) { header('HTTP/1.1 200 OK'); } ?>

It forces WP to throw a 200 code to all robots instead of the 404 so they can spider and index all of your pages. Hope that helped some if you still needed it.

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