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Get The Dreamhost Stats Page Working on a WordPress Site

For websites hosted with Dreamhost, you have an analytics page by default at yoursite.tld/stats/. WordPress can interfere with this, thinking that you are trying to link to a page or category and give you a generated 404 page instead.

Simply add this to your .htaccess file ABOVE the typical # BEGIN WordPress stuff to get it working again.

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/(stats|failed_auth\.html).*$ [NC]
RewriteRule . - [L]
</IfModule>

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  1. candace

    Just the code i was looking for and to add to this, it wont appear to be working unless you clear your cookies or whatever and then reload it. the codes perfect just it wont seem to work unless you do :)

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  2. Phil

    Thanks!!! That’s exactly what I needed, the pages really did look ugly with the ?p=number!!

    Keep up the good work!

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  3. Esh

    Thanks. Its exactly what i am looking for!

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  4. Sharon Hiebing

    Wow, thank you for this! Dreamhost could not help me with this at all!! I did what you said, and right away it worked. And Candace, thanks for mentioning clearing the cookies – I had the same problem and after I did that, worked right away!!

    Sharon Hiebing
    Follow Your Dream Compass

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  5. Barry Kafka

    Thanks, great tip. I rebuilt my permalinks a few times in the WP dashboard to get my nav working again. (Settings > Permalinks > Save Changes)

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