404 help

[haydyn]

Hello all, firstly let me apologize if this is the wrong place to ask this question.

I have a site www.promptresponseaccidentmanagement.com which gets a 200ok when checked for crawl issues, however pages such as /whiplash-injury-compensation-claims.php , /road-traffic-accident-compensation-claims.php and quite a few more return a 404. That's fine (usually) as I can quite happily fix that most of the time. However if you actually go to those pages in your browser, or click through to them on any part of the site you will see that they are in fact not redirecting to a 404 and everything is fine!?

Any body got any ideas?

Best

H

[haydyn]

Hi sorry for not replying earlier. I have finally sorted it. It appears that the wordpress PHP include tag at the top of a static pages cause 404 errors on HTTP header requests...I changed a bit of code and it sorted itself out.

thank you for taking the time to reply.

Best

Haydyn

[Tom-Anthony]

Did you get this fixed, I get 200 response codes for the pages you mention, checking with http://web-sniffer.net/.

Otherwise, I'd suggest it is an issue in your .htaccess or server setup. Are you using any kind of caching on your PHP files?

[haydyn]

ok, i have just done a test and renamed a .php file to a .html file and it comes up with a 200, is this a server issue?

[haydyn]

Hi thanks for replying so quickly, I have my own dedicated server which I manage other domains on, they are all working ok, do you think it could be my .htaccess file or my robots.txt?

thanks

H

[Theo-NL]

Even though the page does render correctly, it also returns a 404 http status code (which you can verify by the firefox add-on 'HTTPfox' for example). It seems something in your website or webserver is mis-configured which is causing this incorrect http status code (404 error) to be fired instead of the 'all good' code (200) it should be firing for these pages considering they are perfectly accessible.

Have you tried contacting your technical staff or webhost about this issue