If you have a non-static request like: example.tld/some-slug/ then you will need to run WordPress to see if that slug is available. The webserver (nginx/apache) doesn’t know that, because WordPress will have to inform us about that through the 404 response header. If your site has only few pages, then you could tell the webserver … Read more
If you intend to do checks based on template tags you should hook on wp action. template_redirect will suffice too, but wp is earlier. This is when WP handles 404 itself. To perform a 301 redirect use status_header( 301 );, wp_safe_redirect(); immediately followed by exit; You could use a plugin handle these for you. It’s … Read more
Your theme or plugins are most likely modifying the “Lost password” link on your wp-login.php via the lostpassword_url filter. How do I reset the “change password” page to the WP default one? One would need to remove those filters callbacks. Here’s one (untested) suggestion: add_filter( ‘lostpassword_url’, function( $url, $redirect ) { remove_all_filters( ‘lostpassword_url’ ); return … Read more
Chris did you try the solution from the WordPress Forum? According to some users, this can solve the problem. Go into your .htaccess file and change the following: Header set Referrer-Policy “” to Header set Referrer-Policy “origin”
High CPU usage on 404 errors
If you are using a static page as homepage, make sure that the page which you were using as static homepage actually exists. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40186902/virtualhost-sets-the-url-as-abc-com-subdirectory/40187170#40187170 Have a look at this. It’s fairly the same scenario.
Thinking on it for a minute, I suppose it has something to do with the rewrite rules from the WP .htacces is kicking in and rewriting the request to WP. It doesn’t totally make sense to me, because WP’s rewrite rules actually ignore directories, and I cannot reproduce it with a quick test, but there … Read more
You are sending a very confusing response: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 12:33:06 GMT Server: Apache X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.13 X-Pingback: http://tech.doig.com.au/xmlrpc.php Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 After that the regular page content follows. So in your first line you tell the browser to look elsewhere for the content. But … Read more
It’s not possible to catch a non–match to template in WP because it will always match some template. The very last template it will fall back to will simply be index.php, the most generic one in template hierarchy. In general the appropriate hook for such logic is typically template_redirect in template-loader.php. At this point the … Read more
Assuming you are on Linux, you need to make some changes in apache2.conf file stored in /etc/apache2 directory. Open the file with root permissions, you will find the code given below in the file. <Directory /var/www/> Options Indexes FollowSymLinks AllowOverride None Require all granted </Directory> Here just change the AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All, save … Read more