Our WordPress custom 404 works great, however when you attempt to access http://example.com/index the custom 404 is not displayed. Instead, the default GoDaddy 404 page is displayed for only this URL.
Just to be clear, the issue is with “/index” and not “/index.php”
I tried a few ways around this but nothing seems to work. Any ideas?
Using the genesis theme, latest WordPress version, all plugins up to date and generally no problems with the site.
Is there a specific HTACCESS entry I can add to handle this url?
This is the contents of my root htaccess file:
# 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
Fixed posted by anubhava, added the following line to my htaccess file above the WordPress entry:
Options -MultiViews
You can fix it by placing this line:
at top of your .htaccess.
Option
MultiViewsis used byApache's content negotiation modulethat runs beforemod_rewriteand and makes Apache server match extensions of files. So/filecan be in URL but it will serve/file.htmlor/file.phpwhatever is found your directory.Reason why you are getting 404 for
/indexURI is probably you have someindex.*file lying in your directory whenMultiViewsis turned on.