Make 404 Page Accessible In Deployments

[dcampbell24]

Question

I want to automatically run mdBook as a service. What should I make the systemd .service file look like? The idea is that I am running the Rust mdBook html server instead of a server like Apache, so I can get the mdBook 404 pages.

Version

mdbook v0.4.42

[dcampbell24]

Another solution would be to add an option to generate .htaccess or similar files for deployment and add docs for deployment. It looks like this was suggested in the initial 404 page issue, but then never done.

[ehuss]

Can you say more about your use case? The built-in web server should not be used for deployment, only local development.

If you want to add instructions for setting up a service like Apache, that would probably best go on something like the wiki.

[dcampbell24]

I figured out how to get 404 pages working and created a wiki page. I also linked to it from the main page.