# 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:** ![arjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9bd4f/32.png) [@arjen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/arjen)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2018, 11:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/404-rendering-at-custom-route-without-redirection/89349/6 "2018-06-14T11:21:35Z")

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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?

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