Redirect to homepage if route doesnt exist in Laravel 5

Question

/** Redirect 404's to home
*****************************************/
App::missing(function($exception)
{
    // return Response::view('errors.missing', array(), 404);
    return Redirect::to('/');
});

I have this code in my routes.php file. I am wondering how to redirect back to the home page if there is a 404 error. Is this possible?

score 68 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 18 '15 at 15:54

68

For that, you need to do add few lines of code to render method in app/Exceptions/Handler.php file which looks like this:

public function render($request, Exception $e)
    {
        if($this->isHttpException($e))
        {
            switch ($e->getStatusCode()) 
                {
                // not found
                case 404:
                return redirect()->guest('home');
                break;

                // internal error
                case '500':
                return redirect()->guest('home');
                break;

                default:
                    return $this->renderHttpException($e);
                break;
            }
        }
        else
        {
                return parent::render($request, $e);
        }
    }

edited Nov 18 '15 at 15:54

ΩlostA

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answered Jun 04 '15 at 09:49

William Langlois

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It work's! it is the right way to handle Redirect to homepage if route doesnt exist in Laravel 5. – Inspire Shahin Aug 13 '15 at 05:04
perfect solution, Thank you. – Manjeet Barnala Jan 12 '17 at 06:49
Perfect solution! – maruf najm Apr 08 '17 at 12:10

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 12 '18 at 11:15

I just want to add a suggestion for cleaning it up a bit more. I'd like to credit the accepted answer for getting me started. In my opinion however since every action in this function will return something, the switch and else statement create a bit of bloat. So to clean it up just a tad, I'd do the following.

public function render($request, Exception $e)
{
    if ($this->isHttpException($e))
    {
        if ($e->getStatusCode() == 404)
           return redirect()->guest('home');

        if ($e->getStatusCode() == 500)
           return redirect()->guest('home');
    }

    return parent::render($request, $e);
}

Rachid Loukili · Answer 3 · 2021-02-13T13:43:06.500

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you may Just do this :

open : app\Exceptions\Handler.php

in handler.php you can replace this code :

return parent::render($request, $exception);

by this : return redirect('/');

it works good ,example :

public function render($request, Exception $exception)
{
     return redirect('/');
    //return parent::render($request, $exception);
}

edited Feb 13 '21 at 13:43

answered Jan 15 '19 at 05:52

Rachid Loukili

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 27 '23 at 10:57

From PHP 8 you can use the match func:

if ($this->isHttpException($e)) {
    return match ($e->getStatusCode()) {
        500, 404 => redirect()->guest('/'),
        default => $this->renderHttpException($e),
    };
} else {
    return parent::render($request, $e);
}

Redirect to homepage if route doesnt exist in Laravel 5

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