Creating 404 Page with Jekyll

Create a 404 page

It’s really easy to create a custom 404 page with jekyll. First, create 404.html in your root folder. Then in YAML front matter, setup permallink: /404.html. And that’s it.

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Code

Here’s the code of my 404.html page for this website.

---
layout: default
permalink: /404.html
---

<h1>404. That’s an error.</h1>
<p>The requested URL was not found on this server. </p>