Figured this might be useful to someone in the future, so here's the solution.
----- Forwarded message from "David J. Weller-Fahy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 17:30:47 +0100 From: "David J. Weller-Fahy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Janusz Gumkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Problems getting 404s - solved Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-URL-Me: http://www.weller-fahy.com X-URL-Family: http://www.weller-kin.com X-Location: Germany, Gangelt, Hof Grootfeld * Janusz Gumkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-11-29 09:38 +0100]: > > I always get the home page of my blog, never a 404. > > *Could* this be caused by mathopd? Or should I be looking at wordpress? > > Such behaviour may be caused by mathopd, passing 'isnthere' as an > argument to index.php of your wordpress installation. > On the other hand, wordpress should be detecting such situation (and > display appropriate error message). I'll see if I can work with the wordpress gang and get that portion of wordpress to operate correctly. > > What I'd like is normal 404s no matter which part I'm using, so any help > > towards that goal would be wonderful. > > Try setting 'PathInfo Off'. > If my above suspicions are correct, this should solve your problem. > If they aren't -- we'll keep investigating... That was it! I set that in the first Control block (the one used for settings that will apply to all Virtual Hosts). After that, everything worked as desired (404's when the path didn't make sense). > By the way: some php scripts require getting path info to work. Try > accessing subpages of your blog to see whether wordpress is one of > them. I did that, and it worked as well: Probably because I don't try for any fancy path nonsense. I just allow the default. Thanks a bunch for the help! Oh, and with your approval, I'll forward this to the list to ensure it's available for anyone else who has this problem. ----- End forwarded message ----- -- dave [ please don't CC me ]
