How to return 404 using Iron Router

Question

When I hit a route that doesn't exist on my Meteor app that uses IR, I get a 200 response with an HTML that (when rendered on a browser) displays a js error on console saying that No route found for path: "/aRoute".

How can a make it return 404?

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Jan 29 '16 at 10:56

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I find this much easier way to show page not found. In router.js

Router.configure({
    layoutTemplate: "layout",
    loadingTemplate: "loading",
    notFoundTemplate: "notFound"
})

Here "notFound" could be any template where you want to show 404 error

edited Jan 29 '16 at 10:56

Cees Timmerman

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answered Nov 18 '14 at 18:47

Kais

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The problem is that I'm trying to return an error code for another app to consume. Also, isn't this code for the client router instead of the server one? – Tomas Romero Nov 18 '14 at 19:18
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no, this does *not* return a 404 status code, the code is still 200. – Christian Fritz Dec 13 '15 at 05:47

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 18 '14 at 19:36

There don't seem to be a correct (or even working?) way of handling real 404's right now. See this issue for example: https://github.com/EventedMind/iron-router/issues/1055

Even when you try ways which should work, you'll still end up with a 200 status code. Like this code below which should work:

this.route( 'pageNotFound', {
  path: '/(.*)',
  where: 'server',
  action: function() {
    this.response.writeHead(404);
    this.response.end( html );
  }
});

Thanks! We'll have to wait for that issue to be solved. – Tomas Romero Nov 18 '14 at 22:17 — Tomas Romero, Nov 18 '14 at 22:17

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 18 '14 at 18:28

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this.route('template404', {
  path: '/*'
}

Use it at the end of your Router.map, cause this catches every value - if you use at the begining every path will be caught to this

Of course you can make it more complex, for example:

this.route('template404', {
      path: '/posts/*'
    }

answered Nov 18 '14 at 18:28

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I get the same errot with the first solution. – Tomas Romero Nov 18 '14 at 19:17
It doesn't work either. Do you have it working? on which version of Meteor/IR? – Tomas Romero Nov 18 '14 at 22:16

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