diff --git a/bin/compile.sh b/bin/compile.sh
index c38cf84..f76cce6 100755
--- a/bin/compile.sh
+++ b/bin/compile.sh
@@ -54,7 +54,15 @@ function compile_rss() {
 
 function munge_html() {
   for FILE in "$TARGET"/*.html "$TARGET"/posts/*/*/*.html "$TARGET"/posts/drafts/*.html "$TARGET"/projects/*.html; do
-    [[ "${FILE##*/}" = "index.html" ]] && continue
+    FILENAME="${FILE##*/}"
+    case "$FILENAME" in
+    index.html)
+      continue
+      ;;
+    missing.html)
+      continue
+      ;;
+    esac
 
     # make posts available without an .html extension
     FILE_DIR="${FILE%.html}"
diff --git a/public/404.md b/public/404.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 7c57d9e..0000000
--- a/public/404.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-<p align="center">four oh four</p>
diff --git a/public/404.md b/public/404.md
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..45159c0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/404.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+missing.md
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/public/missing.md b/public/missing.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c57d9e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/missing.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+<p align="center">four oh four</p>