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Below we will focus on the two most common reasons for a website that hosted by SiteGround to display a 404 Not Found error message.

1. The content you are trying to reach is actually not uploaded

If a link on your website leads to a 404 Not Found error, we strongly recommend that you check if the link is correct and if the page that is supposed to be reached is uploaded on the right location. The right location is usually the public_html directory for your main website or a subdirectory within the public_html directory for a subdomain or other folder.

2. Some SEF/SEO (search engine friendly) functionality of your application was not properly set up.

Most of the SiteGround customers use open source applications like Joomla, Mambo etc. on their accounts. Some of these applications require that a special functionality is enabled in order to generate Search Engine Friendly URLs. Very often the enabling of this functionality include some editing of the .htaccess file. A common case of 404 Not Found error is resulting from some incomplete or wrong .htaccess file or another mistake in the setup of the SEF functionality.

So if you start seeing the 404 Not Found Error after you have tried to enable the SEF function of your application, SiteGround advise that you check carefully if you have done all of the needed set up properly.