404 page replacement - where am I going wrong

[antnorwe]

I'm 100% certain this is a PEBKAC error, however I'm also fairly certain I've followed the existing documentation appropriately so I'm looking for a clearer headed person to ride in and validate my imposter syndrome.

I've referred to this discussion and the links within, and from what I can see my own setup is the same (apart from the declaration of static_templates in my mkdocs.yml file - maybe this is it?)

Appropriate section of mkdocs.yml

site_name: Fantasy Football - TEST SITE
theme:
  name: material
  logo: assets/american-football.png
  favicon: assets/american-football.png
  palette:
    scheme: slate
  custom-dir: overrides

404 page definition:

{% extends "main.html" %}

{% block content %}
<h1>
    Oops - you shouldn't be here
</h1>
<img src="[blob container]/404.jpg", alt="">

{% endblock %} 

Folder structure:

• mkdocs.yml
• docs/
• overrides/
  -- 404.html

[kamilkrzyskow]

Hello @antnorwe,
I see there is custom-dir: overrides with a - instead of _. A good way to check, if it overrides at all, would be also to just make the main.html file a Hello World page, without the extends base.html part and see if it is applied 👌

[antnorwe]

That was absolutely what it was, thank you for pointing out the completely obvious to me! Couldn't see the wood for the trees.