[wp-hackers] static homepage = !404 & exposes drafts and private pages ...? :- /

[andre at pixelplexus.co.za]

So as a quick fix, in the first line of page.php I looked into
$wp_query->post_count and if it is >1 do a 301 to my error page. (I don't
think the site's content has any paginated pages)

Only thing is, /index.php?error=404 was giving the same result of looped
pages, so redirecting to that would probably have caused an infinite loop
now i redirect to /404 which seems to work, untill I can figure out what's
going on or a better solution presents. :-<

A

 Howzit.
>
> Just found that our 404 page isn't showing up, have a static page as
> homepage, permalinks = ' /%post_id%/%postname%/', WordPress 2.5
> installation is in the root. Interestingly it does show up if one puts
> numerals in the url
>
> So e.g. http://forgebusiness.com/123123123 results in the 404 page
> But
> http://forgebusiness.com/foofoo.php seems
>
> gets redirected to http://forgebusiness.com/foofoo.php/
> then loops through and displays pages with page.php, and apparently shows
> pages of any status!?
>