Blog Owners Reporting "The requested URL / was not found on this server. " When Attempting To View Their Blogs

One frequently seen report, in Blogger Help Forum: Something Is Broken, comes from blog owners whose blogs are published to non BlogSpot URLs (though the problem reports may not always mention that detail, explicitly).

Help! I can't see my blog - I just see
The requested URL / was not found on this server.

Like many symptoms of custom domain publishing problems, this symptom can have several causes.

For new blogs, it can indicate an improperly setup custom domain.
For existing blogs, it can come from a blog that's deleted (maybe spurious spam detection), then restored.
For existing blogs, it can come from a blog that's published to a custom domain that has expired domain registration.

In all cases, though, the message

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

is a symptom of the problem, and not the problem itself. So, diagnose the problem.

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