WP BLOG LOG on Sept. 9th 2006 by PRvE

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CONCERNS:

• wp-content/plugins/feedburnerplugin.php
• wp-includes/classes.php

PROBLEM:
After installing feedburnerplugin.php on thinelectrons.com/blog the RSS and Comment feeds displayed a 200 OK Apache error page. This included the link to the feedburner feed, but it should redirect instantly for the feed to work in a feed reader.

RESOURCES:
[2] http://flagrantdisregard.com/index.php/2006/02/18/feedburner-plugin-for-wordpress-20/
[3] http://wordpress.org/support/topic/75286

SOLUTION:
Change code in: wp-includes/classes.php

Find:
function handle_404() {
global $wp_query;
// Issue a 404 if a permalink request doesn’t match any posts. Don’t
// issue a 404 if one was already issued, if the request was a search,
// or if the request was a regular query string request rather than a
// permalink request.
if ( (0 == count($wp_query->posts)) && !is_404() && !is_search() && (

$this->did_permalink || (!empty($_SERVER[’QUERY_STRING’]) && (false === strpos

($_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’], ‘?’))) ) ) {
$wp_query->set_404();
status_header( 404 );
} elseif( is_404() != true ) {
status_header( 200 ); }
}

Change to:
function handle_404() {
global $wp_query;
// Issue a 404 if a permalink request doesn’t match any posts. Don’t
// issue a 404 if one was already issued, if the request was a search,
// or if the request was a regular query string request rather than a
// permalink request.
if ( (0 == count($wp_query->posts)) && !is_404() && !is_search() && (

$this->did_permalink || (!empty($_SERVER[’QUERY_STRING’]) && (false === strpos

($_SERVER[’REQUEST_URI’], ‘?’))) ) ) {
$wp_query->set_404();
status_header( 404 );
}
}

Removed:
} elseif( is_404() != true ) {
status_header( 200 );

COMMENTS:
Changing the code in the classes.php file solves the redirect problem for the feedburnerplugin.php but I have no idea whatsoever how it affects the working of 404 error handling otherwise.

Apply this solution at your own risk!

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