What is a 404 error?
It means our site has been hacked.
It's a very uncommon error that most people never see.
It means that the site is insecure and we should immediately close our browsers.
It means that page or file could not be found.
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Answer:
Even if you don’t know what it means, you might have seen something like these pages on the web.
These are 404 error pages.
a 404 error page is a web page on a website which primarily shows visitors a warning message and explains that visitors just try to access web pages don’t exist at the moment of access.
For example,
If your website is abc.com, and your “abc.com” has only 2 pages, abc.com/product and abc.com/contactus. It means you have a page for your products and contact form. But you don’t have any policy page yet.
Since you have not created the page, it doesn’t exist, right? It is very simple.
So if somebody tries to go an URL like abc.com/policy, what would happen? he will not see any web page but see 404 error instead. That’s 404 page error.
Usually, you will not see this error page on the internet because links on the web are connected to the proper pages with contents. Every link you click, you go to a web site. The almost only exception is old broken blog link. Have you ever tried to access a blog article link on an old site, social media or on the forum but you cannot see the destination anymore like old news artcitle from 10 years ago? This happens when somehow the post is moved or deleted for whatever reason. This is unfortunate because you wanted to go and see the page.
As the website owner’s perspective, this error should not happen because you want to provide the information the visitors are looking for. If you were a business, the error might turn off the visitor and lose a potential customer. If you were a blogger or a writer, you would miss the chance to show your post to the reader. For these reasons, you do not want to have any broken links on your website.
If you have a website with all proper links and visitors go to all pages and gather the information they need, there is no reason that visitors accidentally see the 404 error page. It is like you drive on streets with the right directional signages and each road has side guards, so you cannot deviate from the course unless you have a magical teleportation skill.
Let’s go back to the earlier example. If your website has only
the top page
product page
contact page.
Each page has links to each other. Visitors will not accidentally land on the policy page which you haven’t created yet, right? …. unless a visitor guesses the URL and type like abc.com/policy. In this case, a visitor just made a guess and tried to go to a page. If we put this analogy to your home party, a random guest wants to go to the bathroom. He thinks there is usually a bathroom behind the kitchen and tries to go there based on a guess, but he actually doesn’t have any idea where it is. This is a way you would land on a 404 error page. But there is no harm there. The visitor just took a guess but didn’t work. You don’t have any fault because the visitor ignores the links on the site which you made them correctly. These honest mistakes and accidents happen time to time.
Explanation:
No, it is Hypertext Transfer Protocol standard response
code .
It indicate that the browser was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested .