How to make Laravel 5 return 404 status code

Question

I am trying to get Laravel 5 (5.1.31) to return a http status response of 404 when a page is not found. I have tried several things and it always returns 200.

In my controller I have this:

else    {    header('HTTP/1.0 404 Not Found');    return view('errors.404);    } 

I have also tried:

else    {    http_response_code(404);    return view('errors.404);    } 

and

else    {    abort(404, 'Page not found');    } 

I also tried putting this in the 404.blade

@inject( 'response', 'Illuminate\Http\Response' ) {{ $response->status(404) }} 

No success. No matter what I try, Laravel returns 200. How do I get it to return 404?

Answer 1

you may use the abort helper:

abort(404);