WordPress throws 404 when I try to use a custom template page

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I made a custom page template (for example, for About page), added Template Name inside the file and saved that. Then I tried to add a page in wp admin console using that template. It said that the page had been created successfully but when I try to open it in browser, it shows me 404 error. What did I do wrong?
Thanks.

I forgot to say that I set up permalinks to be /%postname%/ and then it give me that error. If I use no permalinks (default setting), it show the page normally.

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  1. Friends,
    I made a single change to the custom template and it fixed the above issue.

    Instead of
    require_once('./wp-blog-header.php'); in the custom page for including WordPress theme,

    I used this,
    require_once('./wp-load.php');

    That fixed me the problem.

    Please let me know if its working for you. I spent hours tracking and fixing this up for theworksheets.com

  2. I think the problem is nothing to do with your custom template, but your permalink structure.

    It’s not really recommended to just use /%postname%/ – quoting from the Codex;

    Starting Permalinks with %postname% is strongly not recommended for performance reasons..

    What’s the slug (the ‘sanitized’ title used in the URL) of the problem page?

  3. Make sure you’ve rebooted Apache after editing the config file.

    Also check there is a .htaccess file (no filename, with an extension ‘htaccess’) in your WordPress root, and that it contains;

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress