You can display a custom 404 error page when people try to access nonexistent pages on your site.
- Navigate to your GitHub Pages repository.
- Switch to the
master
branch for a User/Organization Pages site, or to thegh-pages
branch for a Project Pages site. - Create a HTML file named
404.html
or create a new Markdown file named404.md
at the root level of your GitHub Pages repository. - In the YAML front matter of your new 404 file, add
permalink: /404.html
. - Add the content you want to display to lost souls and weary travelers.
- Commit your changes and, if you're working on a local clone of your repository, push them up to your GitHub Enterprise instance.