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In application whenever any route is not working or may be page not available to render it, then best solution is to provide a 404 page with some message so that user will understand and go back to site.

Inside this article we will how to create custom 404 page in laravel 8. This article is super easy to understand and implement it in your application.

Creating custom error pages, 404 pages, exception pages give user with some information which makes sense instead of giving application errors.

Let’s get started.

Laravel Installation

We will create laravel project using composer. So, please make sure your system should have composer installed. If not, may be this article will help you to Install composer in system.

Here is the command to create a laravel project-

composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

To start the development server of Laravel –

php artisan serve

URL: http://127.0.0.1:8000

Assuming laravel already installed inside your system.

Laravel 8 Default 404 Error Page

Let’s say a laravel application contains these routes.

web.php

//...

Route::get("/", function () {
    echo "<h3>Welcome to home page</h3>";
});

Route::get("/about-us", function () {
    echo "<h3>Welcome to about us page</h3>";
});

When we open URL like

http://127.0.0.1:8000/ OR http://127.0.0.1:8000/about-us It will work.
http://127.0.0.1:8000/contact-us – It will throw 404 error and open a default 404 error page of laravel.

Output be like –

Next, let’s change this default layout for laravel 404 page.

Custom 404 Error Page – Page Not Found

Create a folder with name errors inside /resources/views.

Next, we need to create a file with name 404.blade.php inside /resources/views/errors folder.

Open 404.blade.php and write this complete code into it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-beta.2/css/bootstrap.min.css">
    <style type="text/css">
        body{
          margin-top: 150px;
            background-color: #C4CCD9;
        }
        .error-main{
          background-color: #fff;
          box-shadow: 0px 10px 10px -10px #5D6572;
        }
        .error-main h1{
          font-weight: bold;
          color: #444444;
          font-size: 100px;
          text-shadow: 2px 4px 5px #6E6E6E;
        }
        .error-main h6{
          color: #42494F;
        }
        .error-main p{
          font-size: 14px; 
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
    <div class="container">
      <div class="row text-center">
        <div class="col-lg-6 offset-lg-3 col-sm-6 offset-sm-3 col-12 p-3 error-main">
          <div class="row">
            <div class="col-lg-8 col-12 col-sm-10 offset-lg-2 offset-sm-1">
              <h1 class="m-0">404</h1>
              <h6>Page not found - Online Web Tutor Blog</h6>
              <p>Are you interested to learn more programming?</p>
              <p><a href="{{ URL::to('/') }}" class="btn btn-dark">Click here</a></p>
            </div>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Application Testing

Run this command into project terminal to start development server,

php artisan serve

URL – http://127.0.0.1:8000/contact-us (It doesn’t exists in application)

Error page now,

We hope this article helped you to learn Create Custom 404 Page in Laravel 8| Page Not Found in a very detailed way.

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