404 issue on my website

[perry]

Hi there,

Did you see this guide yet? This is the best place to start for “Page Not Found” issues.

[Support Guide] I’ve deployed my site but I still see "Page not found”

Last reviewed by Netlify Support - August, 2023 Netlify attempts to lookup a file based on several xor filters, and when all of these fail, we end up serving a 404 page. For example, a request made to /example/ would check /example/index.html, /example.html, /example/home.html and several other combinations (not necessarily in the same order) before hitting the 404. However, in case you were not expecting a 404 at a particular URL, you might be interested in finding out the reason and potentia…

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[Support Guide] Direct links to my single page app (SPA) don't work

I have seen people asking on twitter about this. A common question seems to be, “but how do you handle 404s this way?” For single page applications which require all URLs to be routed to this index.html page so that they can handle the routing in JavaScript, that JavaScript logic is going to need to handle the 404s too. This is because the information about what routes resolve to what views is held in the JS. It needs to handle the behaviour for any missing views itself too.

If you are still seeing issues after following the troubleshooting steps in this guide, please let us know!