Hello everyone,
I am stuck with a minor problem that I can’t figure out. I am working in a new site for a GitLab group. The page is working correctly at azarte.gitlab.io but something strange happens when I ask for a page which doesn’t exist. Instead of loading custom 404.html file the browser shows GitLab sign in page.
Another group site is working as expected showing 404.html when I ask for a page which doesn’t exist. I check groups and projects configuration and I couldn’t see any differences.
Any clues?
Thanks!
This occurs because the group-level page domains use the path to point into their projects, and for security purposes any group.gitlab.io/_value_ that does not automatically match a public project name will be subject to authentication before any response confirming existence/absence can be sent back.
This behavior likely doesn’t happen on actual project-level pages, which don’t have a nesting under them and will serve you actual 404s without needing to protect things under (when public).