Dear Discourse community, I have an issue I’m trying to resolve, but having little problems with it. The behaviour I’m trying to achieve with a custom route, is basically the behaviour you see when linking in a topic to another non-existent topic. When clicking a link to a non-existent topic, you …

Not exactly. The Static Pages plugin doesn’t try to maintain the URL without redirecting. It’s all done on the server side as seen here: https://github.com/procourse/procourse-static-pages/blob/master/app/controllers/dl_static_pages/pages_controller.rb

Hey @joebuhlig , I actually created PRs for the procourse-static-pages plugin recently. Glad you removed the Licensing, since I think more people can benefit from this plugin. When I make a post, linking to a non-existing procourse-static-page, I see the same behaviour as I described. So when you c…

The Static Pages plugin simply follows the core Discourse process. I try to stick to the “the Discourse way” as much as I can. Since this seems to be the way it works in core, you would need to write an acceptable PR for the team. But I can’t speak to whether or not they would accept it. There may …

I agree that it seems to be “the Discourse way”. However, when I link to a non-existing topic/post, Discourse does not redirect to a 404 page, but simply renders one without redirecting. So there seem to be multiple ways of handling this. Any chance @codinghorror can weigh in on this?

404 rendering at custom route without redirection

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Bas (Bas van Leeuwen) June 11, 2018, 7:35am 2

@joebuhlig is this something that you encountered when developing the Static Pages plugin?

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404 rendering at custom route without redirection

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