How can I make custom 404 pages?

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#1

I’d like to serve my own HTML for 404 (and other HTTP codes).

#2

You will have to include lines for handling 404 response codes in your application code. In a Python web framework like Django, include it in a views.py file.

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext


def handler404(request, exception, template_name="404/index.html"):
    response = render_to_response("404/index.html")
    response.status_code = 404
    return response

and then update urls.py:

handler404 = 'my_app.views.handler404'

(Source)

In PHP you can include it in your main passthru file in the application directory, index.php. Within that file, you can then point to the custom 404 html file:

http_response_code(404);
readfile("404/index.html");