Checking my emails late one evening, I’d received one from Adrienne Smith telling me that she’d been sent to a ‘page not found – 404 error’ page after submitting a comment. Oh Dear! What does one do? 
I for one had no idea. So, since it was late – I went to bed.
Okay, next morning before I went calling out for help, I thought I’d give it a go and look for a solution myself. 1st step – ‘Google it’. There were loads of ‘How to fix 404 errors’. Alot went in depth, using google webmaster tools etc… too much for me at the best of times I’m afraid, and on a Friday! Anyway, come across a simple way to solve this through my webhosting home panel.
Now, I’m with Hostgator, so this is from the cPanel there.
- After logging-in, from the main home cpanel page ….
→ scroll down to ‘Databases‘
→ Go into ‘MySQL Databases‘
- Inside MySQL Databases ….
At ‘Modify Databases‘,
checking you have the correct one, in this case it was my _wrdp1
→ Press ‘Repair DB‘.
It’ll do its work and a status will appear when completed telling you if things are ‘ok’ or not.
It was from this status, where I found that a plugin I’d installed didn’t seem to be compatible and therefore, was not repairable! So, after deactivating and deleting that plugin, my 404 error was gone. Yippee!! 
Hope that’s of some help to anyone who may ever have that dreaded 404 error, and thank you to Adrienne for letting me know about it.
Until next time –
Julie 
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Hi Julie,
It must really be a lost feeling when something goes wrong and you don’t know what to do.
All I can say is welcome to the world of the Internet. It sure happens to all of use from time to time.
Right now I’m going through a twitterfeed problem, my feed will not phase. I’m sure if I keep at it I will find a solution.
Thanks for this 404 error post. It will sure come in handy when #$%*% happens.
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Well, what a pleasant welcome to my inbox.
Hi Terry, I hope all is going well with you.
I always get a rush of panic when any error shows up on me, then realizing, that does not help and will not fix the problem, I calm down and see what can be done. And it can be a lost feeling if you have no idea and nowhere to go for help. I was lucky, well not that I got the error, lucky that it was easily detected and just as easily to fix.
Hope you get that twitterfeed problem sorted, I don’t even know what you mean by ‘my feed will not phase’!! Perhaps I’ll have a little search myself and find out.
Thanks Terry for stopping by
Take Care Now
Julie
Twitter: barry_wells
Hi Julie,
It’s nice to know that others are watching out for us isn’t it? I recently had an issue that kept triggering an auto script with Hostgator and it kept shutting my blog down. 3 times in 48hrs and i wanted to scream
Steve Hippel dropped me an email to let me know about it, just as Adrienne did for you. Don’t you just love being a part of the blogging community….
Fair play to you for stepping in and giving it a go to fix it yourself. I bet you felt good when you’d solved it
One thing I do is make notes of changes I make, so if anything happens down the road and goes messes up I can look back and see what changes I made.
Enjoy your weekend Julie,
Barry
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Hi Barry, geez, sorry I’ve taken so long to reply.
Don’t like having problems and errors, but if they’re there and one doesn’t know about it, it could have some bad effects – Yes, it is nice when people drop those little notes letting us know.
I did feel pretty good afterwards Barry, it was quite an accomplishment. I do think sometimes, (painful as it may be!
) that it is a good idea to at least try and find out the ‘what’ and ‘how’ first and take it from there then to see whether you yourself can fix it or not. I was pretty lucky that it wasn’t a major problem and was easily solved.
Good idea writing down ones changes, there’s the first place to tackle.
Thanks Barry
Take Care Now
Julie
Twitter: adriennesmith40
Hi Julie,
So sorry I’m just now getting by your place.
I hated that happened but am glad I was able to notify you and you were able to research that and fix it. I really appreciate that you shared with us just how to do that because I wouldn’t have known. I would have just called my hosting service and they would have fixed it for me.
I love learning how to fix things myself though so if that ever were to happen to me, I now know what to do.
Thank you again for sharing this with us and so happy you were able to resolve that rather quickly.
~Adrienne
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Hi Adrienne,
I was glad you were able to let me know as well
I find that if I do give things a go, try and find out what the problem is first myself, even if I didn’t find it or can’t fix it, it helps me understand better – how things work. It was a simple solution to the error I had here, so hopefully it will take the panic away from anyway who does get one, being able to easily pin-point the problem and going from there.
Thanks again Adrienne, and for stopping by.
Take Care
Julie
Twitter: devesh
Hi Julie,
I can understand what it feels when things like this happen, but I’m glad you got the 404 issue fixed.
Hope you had a great weekend, Julie.
-Dev
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Hi Dev and Welcome,
I’m glad I got it fixed as well Dev. Being able to detect the problem is often what takes the panic out of us. Once it’s detected, we can then take the appropriate action. In my case is was a simple solution I was able to fix myself.
Thanks for stopping by Dev and you have yourself a great week.
Julie