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Latest post by nphic on Thursday, 11 December 2025 17:39 CST
Folks,
I just migrated my website, www.nphic.org from a dedicated server to a virtual server. When I go to re-create my .htaccess file, the Joomla / Admin Tools webpage takes a long time to write and then it finishes with a 404 - Page not found error message. It is doing the same thing when I try to save the Joomla Global Configuration. Any thoughts on what is wrong here?
Thanks in advance for all the help!
Joe
I believe that you need to talk to your host about this. It sounds like they are blocking the request, and there's possibly a custom error page set up though the file doesn't exist which is why you get a 404 instead of what I assume would've been an HTTP 502 or 504 error.
For what it's worth, I have seen this happening on a server and it was ultimately a security rule managed on the host's side. Once I told them how to reproduce the issue and the exact date and time it happened to me they were able to isolate and disable the rule pretty fast.
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Nicholas,
Thanks! I've reached out to my hosting provider. Thank you for the guidance and prompt response.
This request can be closed.
Thanks again,
Joe Rebele
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