Trying to return custom 404 page Laravel

Question

I have some problems with implementing custom 404 error.

My errorHandlerController:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Illuminate\Http\Request;

class ErrorHandlerController extends Controller
{
    public function errorCode404()
    {
        return view('errors.404');
    }

    public function errorCode405()
    {
        return view('errors.405');
    }
}

Route:

Route::get('404',['as'=>'404','uses'=>'ErrorHandlerController@errorCode404']);

In some other controller I am trying to do this:

return redirect()->route('404');

It does not show any errors but at network console I see this(endless 302)

But if I use

return view('errors.404');

everything works as it should.

Somebody help me please, is something wrong with my routes or else?

redirect()->route('404'); is the most unessecary thing ever. why do you do it? — Philipp Sander, Jul 18 '18 at 15:35
Possible duplicate of [laravel 5 custom 404](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26394017/laravel-5-custom-404) — Adam, Jul 18 '18 at 15:36
Checkout this tutorial https://codezen.io/how-to-create-a-custom-404-page-in-laravel-7/ — Sapnesh Naik, May 05 '20 at 04:18

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 18 '18 at 15:41

2

Simply just use abort(404); instead of redirect to a custom 404 URL.

answered Jul 18 '18 at 15:41

Per Eriksson

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 18 '18 at 15:49

You can customize error views really easy in laravel. For example for 404, 403, 500, just put your own template/markup in:

resources/views/errors/404.blade.php
resources/views/errors/403.blade.php
resources/views/errors/500.blade.php

and you trigger them with the abort or abort_if helpers as explained in the docs

Trying to return custom 404 page Laravel

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