title: Calling a php page from an html-form action, but causing a "404 Not Found" error
body: <p>I have created an HTML form which calls a php page (function) when submitted:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form name="business" action="create-account-and-profile.php" method="POST"&gt; 
  &lt;table&gt; 
  &lt;tbody&gt; 
    ....
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have made sure that create-account-and-profile.php is in the same directory. The php file is a form data processor which starts as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>require_once (ABSPATH . "wp-admin/includes/user.php");
  if (isset($_POST['personal_email_id'])) {
      $email_id = $_POST['personal_email_id'];
  .......
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>For some reason unknown to me, when the form is submitted, a “404 not found” error was generated.</p>
  
  <p>This is on a WORDPRESS platform, hosted in the Openshift environment.</p>
  
  <p>I searched and reviewed relevant posts on this and WORDPRESS forums. </p>
  
  <p>Any advice will be greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>JZ</p>