Add custom 404 page

[shrayasr]

Right now it shows Host gator's 404 page. This should be handled by us

[whiletruelearn]

@shrayasr

The domain points to hostgator when i tried dig command. Can't we just serve it from github pages by changing the repository name and adding a CNAME record.

krish@krish-Vostro-A860:~/coding/website$ dig chennaipy.org

; <<>> DiG 9.8.1-P1 <<>> chennaipy.org
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 28875
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;chennaipy.org.         IN  A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
chennaipy.org.      14400   IN  A   192.185.226.101

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
chennaipy.org.      86400   IN  NS  **ns6629.hostgator.com**
chennaipy.org.      86400   IN  NS  **ns6630.hostgator.com**

;; Query time: 2276 msec
;; SERVER: 220.226.6.104#53(220.226.6.104)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan  8 00:04:27 2015
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 102

[shrayasr]

This can be done from within pelican itself. Read about it here

[shrayasr]

Oh wait. This will not work since our hosting isn't from Github pages. The way custom 404s work is by using this Github feature.

Looks like this won't be possible for now.

[shrayasr]

@bravegnu can you set up the .htaccess (if apache, i.e.) to serve 404.html as the 404 page? Then we can do this

[shrayasr]

ping @bravegnu

[bravegnu]

You can submit a .htaccess file, with the required configuration, it will get shipped to the server, with the rest of the files.

[shrayasr]

Aha. I see. Will look into it

On Sat, Mar 7, 2015 at 9:35 PM, Vijay Kumar [email protected]
wrote:

You can submit a .htaccess file, with the required configuration, it will
get shipped to the server, with the rest of the files.

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