Web stat pages are 404

Web stat pages are 404

Posted by: Rictor
Posted on: 2007-10-28 16:21:00

I signed up to Dreamhost a few days ago, put a few domains on my account, and did some one-click installs of Wordpress. After a couple days, my stats were showing up on my domains. Today, I check and the /stats/ directories are all 404. Do I need to configure something in the control panel in order to set up my web stats? I really need to see where my traffic is coming from.

Re: Web stat pages are 404

Posted by: rlparker
Posted on: 2007-10-28 16:30:00

In reply to:

...and did some one-click installs of WordPress.


The default WordPress .htaccess file intercepts and rewrites requests to pages that are *not* part of the WordPress installation, and that is why you are not able to load your "http://youdomain.tld/stats/" pages.

Fortunately, the "fix" for this is really easy, and is thoroughly described in this DreamHost Wiki article on making stats available with .htaccess. wink

--rlparker

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