Description
When you call mdbook build
, you automatically get a 404.html
page in the root of the output directory.
Since we run mdbook build
for each translation, we end up with a structure like
/404.html
/da/404.html
/de/404.html
...
The root 404.html
page is automatically used by GitHub Pages when a page cannot be found. Note that the URL doesn't change: the content of 404.html
is simply returned to the browser.
Now, this doesn't work well with our translations: you end up with the English 404.html
regardless of which translation you're currently viewing. We should fix this so that people get the correct version. The output.html.input-404
setting is for that.
Simply setting this is not enough: GitHub Pages doesn't know anything about the translation sub-directories, so it will continue to show people the root 404.html
page. I think we can fix this by injecting a bit of JavaScript into the 404.md
file which mdbook build
uses to generate the 404.html
page.