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 …

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

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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404 rendering at custom route without redirection

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