[wget] wget can't download - 404 error

I tried to download an image using wget but got an error like the following.

--2011-10-01 16:45:42--  http://www.icerts.com/images/logo.jpg
Resolving www.icerts.com... 97.74.86.3
Connecting to www.icerts.com|97.74.86.3|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2011-10-01 16:45:43 ERROR 404: Not Found.

My browser has no problem loading the image. What's the problem? curl can't download either.

Thanks.

Sam

I had the same problem. Solved using single quotes like this:

$ wget 'http://www.icerts.com/images/logo.jpg'

wget version in use:

$ wget --version
GNU Wget 1.11.4 Red Hat modified

Wget 404 error also always happens if you want to download the pages from Wordpress-website by typing

wget -r http://somewebsite.com

If this website is built using Wordpress you'll get such an error:

ERROR 404: Not Found.

There's no way to mirror Wordpress-website because the website content is stored in the database and wget is not able to grab .php files. That's why you get Wget 404 error.

I know it's not this question's case, because Sam only wants to download a single picture, but it can be helpful for others.

I had the same problem with a Google Docs URL. Enclosing the URL in quotes did the trick for me:

wget "https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/export?format=tsv&id=1sSi9f6m-zKteoXA4r4Yq-zfdmL4rjlZRt38mejpdhC23" -O sheet.tsv

You will also get a 404 error if you are using ipv6 and the server only accepts ipv4.

To use ipv4, make a request adding -4:

wget -4 http://www.php.net/get/php-5.4.13.tar.gz/from/this/mirror

Actually I don't know what is the reason exactly, I have faced this like of problem. if you have the domain's IP address (ex 208.113.139.4), please use the IP address instead of domain (in this case www.icerts.com)

wget 192.243.111.11/images/logo.jpg

Go to find the IP from URL https://ipinfo.info/html/ip_checker.php