# 404 rendering at custom route without redirection

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/404-rendering-at-custom-route-without-redirection/89349>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [June 7, 2018, 9:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/404-rendering-at-custom-route-without-redirection/89349 "2018-06-07T09:20:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![joebuhlig](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/joebuhlig/32/193054_2.png) [@joebuhlig](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joebuhlig)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/404-rendering-at-custom-route-without-redirection/89349/5 "2018-06-14T10:54:18Z")

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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 be a valid reason for redirecting to a 404 page as opposed to leaving the URL.

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