I am trying to get my website to display a custom 404 webpage. Currently, I added a netlify.toml file like this to the root of the project:
[[redirects]]
from = "/*"
to = "404.html"
status = 404
and with project path like this:
On the deploy page on Netlify, the summary portion seem to indicate that the redirect rule was processed without any errors. However, when I try to test it out, the webpage defaults to Netlify’s default error page, instead of the custom 404 HTML page. Can anybody help as to why it isn’t working as intended?
Amusingly it’ll almost certainly be because the 404.html page doesn’t exist in your Publish directory .
Run your Vite build locally and check what it outputs, you’ll find your 404.html isn’t being output.
See:
@ayush1 You are using Vite, so your issue is the same as many others using Vite.
You haven’t read or understood the applicable documentation for Vite.
Vite isn’t magic and it won’t work with whatever random project structure you throw at it.
You should read the Vite Static Asset Handling Documentation , in particular the section concerning the Public Directory .
Note: Anyone else encountering this thread that is using Vite and has an issue with images, favicons, or _redirects files (or other s…
