← All status codes4xx – Client Error

HTTP 404 – Not Found

The server cannot find the requested resource. The URL may be wrong or the resource no longer exists.

Common use case

The universal "nothing here" response for broken links, deleted pages, mistyped URLs, or resources that were never created.

Example

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found

<html><body>Page not found</body></html>

History

Part of the original HTTP/1.0 specification, RFC 1945 (1996).

Did you know?

It is comfortably the most famous status code among non-developers, thanks to decades of custom "404 page not found" error pages.

Other 4xx codes

400Bad Request401Unauthorized402Payment Required403Forbidden405Method Not Allowed406Not Acceptable407Proxy Authentication Required408Request Timeout409Conflict410Gone411Length Required412Precondition Failed413Content Too Large414URI Too Long415Unsupported Media Type416Range Not Satisfiable417Expectation Failed418I'm a teapot422Unprocessable Content425Too Early426Upgrade Required428Precondition Required429Too Many Requests430Shopify Security Rejection431Request Header Fields Too Large444No Response451Unavailable For Legal Reasons460Client Closed Connection463Malformed X-Forwarded-For Header464Incompatible Protocol Versions494Request Header Too Large495SSL Certificate Error496SSL Certificate Required497HTTP Request Sent To HTTPS Port499Client Closed Request