laravel 5 custom 404

Question

Go to resources/views/errors and create a 404.blade.php file with what you want on your 404 page and Laravel takes care of the rest.

if you want to have some global solution, you can do changes in /app/Exceptions/Handler.php by adding code bellow

public function render($request, Exception $e)
{
    if ($this->isHttpException($e)) {

        $statusCode = $e->getStatusCode();

        switch ($statusCode) {

            case '404':
                return response()->view('layouts/index', [
                    'content' => view('errors/404')
                ]);
        }
    }
    return parent::render($request, $e);
}

In Laravel 5 you could simply put a custom 404.blade.php under resources/views/errors and that's it. For other errors like 500 you could try the following in your app/Exeptions/Handler.php:

public function render($request, Exception $e)
{

    if ( ! config('app.debug') && ! $this->isHttpException($e)) {
        return response()->view('errors.500');
    }

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

And do the same for 500 HTTP Exeptions

I like the case statement approach but it has some issues going levels deep.

However, this catches all errors:

Route::any('/{page?}',function(){
  return View::make('errors.404');
})->where('page','.*');

Laravel 5 already has a pre-defined render method(line 43) under app/Exceptions/Handler.php. Simply insert the redirection code before parent::render. Like so,

public function render($request, Exception $e)
{
    if ($e instanceof ModelNotFoundException) 
    {
        $e = new NotFoundHttpException($e->getMessage(), $e);
    }

    //insert this snippet
    if ($this->isHttpException($e)) 
    {
        $statusCode = $e->getStatusCode();
        switch ($statusCode) 
        {
            case '404': return response()->view('error', array(), 404);
        }
    }

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

Note: My view is under resources/views. You can somehow put it anywhere else you want.

Lavavel 5.8

Create a file in resources/views/errors/404.blade.php and add this code.

@extends('errors::minimal')

@section('title', __('Not Found'))
@section('code', '404')

@if($exception)
    @section('message', $exception->getMessage())
@else
    @section('message', __('Not Found'))
@endif

Then in your controller you can use:

abort(404, 'Whatever you were looking for, look somewhere else');

I was looking for an answer to something else but thought I'd help in case someone else is looking for this.

run the command php artisan vendor:publish you will see all publishable files. type in the number for laravel-errors the error files are then published to resources/views/errors folder