I'm having an unusual problem with my 404 error page, which doesn't always appear in its proper form.

cPanel saves my 404 page in my root folder as 404.shtml. The thing works fine as long as the visitor mistypes a page name, in the form of mysite.com/wrongpage.php or something similar.

The problem occurs when the address is improperly named in the form of a folder, as in mysite.com/wrongpage/.

What happens then is my 404 page appears, but without the benefit of my style sheet. There appears to be a path problem that manifests itself only in this instance, that prevents the page from finding index.css.

Any idea on how to fix this problem?

Thanks.

not without actually seeing it.

I can guess that you have specified relative path to your css file in your html

404 page appearing properly when non-existent page is entered in url bar:
http://tinyurl.com/5jtydu

404 page appears but index.css is lost when non-existent folder is entered (with trailing slash):
http://tinyurl.com/5bs597

I tried the full path for index.css, as mtishetsky appeared to suggest, without any better luck.

Can you please post your code of your 404 page here, if what you are saying is true then actually your 404 is working 100% correctly, its just the link to the STYLE or CSS page, or some of the links in it may not be full paths and this is why it works in some directories and not in others.

Putting the full paths for all entries should help
ie
http://yourdomain.com/dir/filename
instead of
/dir/filename

Posting the code here would help us though

Your stylesheet links are document relative href="stylesheets/etc"

they should to be ROOT relative for rewritten URLs href="/stylesheets/etc"

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Your stylesheet links are document relative href="stylesheets/etc"

they should to be ROOT relative for rewritten URLs href="/stylesheets/etc"

It finally occurred to me that I must adjust the paths in my error pages, not the theme pages in my blog!

Thanks for your help.