imathis/octopress — Issue #362: github pages displays github branded "page does not exists" for folders and 404 pages
Author: nanek
Created: 2012-01-11 05:00:44+00:00
State: open

If you try to request a file that does not exist, or try to go to /blog/ you will get the github branded "page does not exists" which looks really odd when using a custom domain.

Please add a 404.html page in the source directory.

Also folders, including /assets/, /blog/, /images/, /javascripts/, /stylesheets/ should have an index.html. It appears that even with the 404.html page, github will display the "page does not exists" page for folders without an index.html. I realize users should not be trying /images/, however /blog/ is a reasonable url to expect to work.