Hapi.js custom 404 error page

Question

Very new to Hapi framework. I am trying to make custom error pages. How do you route a 404.html page to 404 response?

would like the handler to be like so

handler: function (request, reply) {
    reply.file('./static/website/javascript/main.js');
}

Answer 1

You could use something like this:

server.route({
    method: '*',
    path: '/{p*}', // catch-all path
    handler: function (request, reply) {
        reply.file('./path/to/404.html').code(404);
    }
});

By using the .code() method, you can override the default (200 OK) status code.

Answer 2

A small update: since 9.x version you need to include Inert plugin to use reply.file. See this issue: https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/issues/2729

(By this time documentation is not updated yet)