: Why are perfectly legitimate pages on my website registering in Google Webmasters as 404? I have seen this question asked several times here, but never clearly answered. I suspect it has something

@Lengel546

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I have seen this question asked several times here, but never clearly answered.

I suspect it has something to do with my .htaccess file:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^moreinfo/(.*)$ www.kgstiles.com/moreinfo [R=301]
RewriteRule ^healthsolutions/(.*)$ www.kgstiles.com/healthsolutions [R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*).html$ / [R=301]
RewriteRule ^(.*).htm$ / [R=301]
</IfModule>


when I check the URL without a forward slash at the end, it registers as 404 (even though it renders fine in a browser), but when I write it without the forward slash at the end, it renders 200 OK, but if I try to take off the forward slash with the .htaccess file, the browser gives me a 310 error (too many redirects)

you can see the 404 and 310 with this url: www.kgstiles.com/pureplantessentials.html which redirects to www.kgstiles.com/pureplantessentials/ (which is a 404), so what is a solution and why might this be registering as a 404?

Any Help is appreciated!
(I'm using WordPress, BTW)

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