Error 404 explained

Pretty much all the time, there’s an interaction between the browsers and servers. This communication is triggered every time someone in the world requests a website. Servers have their own way of informing the status of that request: the HTTP codes. There are five HTTP code categories. Statuses are expressed through three numbers. The first number indicates the type of status.

  • 1XX, informational responses.
  • 2XX, successful responses.
  • 3XX, redirects.
  • 4XX, client errors (like error 404). 
  • 5XX, server errors.

What is error 404?

Error 404 means “not found”. It is a type of HTTP response status code that points to the category of “client errors”. 

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