I’ve just set up a WordPress blog on GoDaddy and have tried enabling Permalinks but I still get GoDaddy’s 404 page. What am I doing wrong?
I got this question from Leo of Whooah.biz who was setting up a new domain called link4business.info for a client. He had gone through the usual steps of rolling out WordPress, however when he decided to use permalinks, these weren’t working. He checked all the usual things, his .htaccess file was in place, but instead of getting the pages he was after, he was getting the standard “Page Not Found” error message supplied by GoDaddy.
The problem here is that your web server is trapping the 404 before your .htaccess has a chance to get it’s hands on it, so no matter what you place in there, nothing different is going to happen. The answer is to turn of your hosting provider’s 404 handler which then lets your own handler kick in. Here’s how you do this:
Open your control panel and navigate to your Settings page.
Click on the 404 Error Behaviour icon.
Select Make my 404 Page my Home Page.
This last action actually turns off GoDaddy’s custom 404 Error Page and lets you handle permalinks in the way WordPress expects.
So Leo, hopefully this means you won’t be banging your head against that lovely teak outdoor furniture you have. Next time you get stuck on something, just ask!
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thanks for the easy fix! Cheers!
Owen - Thanks for the detailed reply. I have dozens of clients using WordPress on GoDaddy servers without permalink problems because I was able to easily realize GoDaddy’s 404 error handling. Now my question is a bit more complicated than that…
GoDaddy’s Deluxe hosting allows for multiple websites all under one account. The way they do this is by pointing the domains to subfolders within the root. But, this poses a problem when trying to activate the permalink structures for these new sites since the 404 handling is pointing to the main root folder instead of your domain’s root folder. Make sense? I’m searching for a way to rectify this issue since I have quite a few clients in this situation. Any ideas?
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@Rene: You may be able to find your answer on my latest post: http://askowen.info/2008/09/how-do-i-make-wordpress-permalinks-work-on-nested-domains/