404 non-existent routes

[collinbarrett]

In new UI, routes like https://filterlists.com/404 do not exist and should return a proper 404 response and page or redirect to a valid page.

[tom-val]

Seems like it's showing valid page when you enter invalid url. Or you want to do a redirect to 404 page?

[collinbarrett]

yeah, for proper SEO, we should return an actual 404 page with a 404 HTTP response or redirect to the actual canonical route of the homepage. this needs to be fixed using React Router somehow. I'm not a React Router expert, and just haven't had the time to look into it.

[tom-val]

I can either show NotFound component, or redirect to home page. Which would you prefer?

[collinbarrett]

Some quick Googling seems to say to keep the 404 rather than redirect all 404s. So, let's try to return a 404 with a simple 404 not found page. Maybe the page can then have a clickable link back to the homepage.

[collinbarrett]

Thanks, @smikis , we're part of the way there. We're still getting 200 OK statuses rather than 404, however. That might be an nginx config issue rather than something inside of the React app?

[tom-val]

As far as I know doing it from react router is possible only with server side rendering enabled