404 page cannot be created - Best solution?

[GastonRiera]

Hi all,

i am helping a frind with his page, he is very shot on money and cannot spend a dime on programers or learn how to create a 404 page.
His web is in php laravel, also i dont know how to create one.

My options are:

1. Leave the 404 page to be just like that.
2. Redirect, via .htaccess to homepage.

What should recommend him to do?

Thanks!
GR.

[Bigb06]

Hello,

If your friends don't have money to generate 404, what he expects from his website in the end? A single webpage? CV ? 
Without money you can still have a Facebook page, Google local, Wordpress blog... All are already optimized.

(for a web developer redirect to 404 will take few minutes)

[ITsoldSEO]

Hi

Not up on Laravel these days but with no dollar to play with, your best friend would be Google.

Does this help => https://mattstauffer.co/blog/laravel-5.0-custom-error-pages

Hope so,

Good luck.

Regards

Daren

[Marcus_Miller]

Hey

This is how I would handle it if budget is a concern:

1. find or create a good looking 404 page - there are plenty of HTML templates out there.

2. add a htaccess rule to redirect all 404's to this landing page - instructions here: http://www.htaccessbasics.com/404-custom-error-page/

Hope that helps

Marcus

[GastonRiera]

His business is not doing so well these times.
And his site was made specific as que desidered, so now any change must fo through a developer.

Yeap, it takes a few minutes, but that minutes are money.

Thanks any way.
I'm finding a way with some 404 template and .htaccess

[GastonRiera]

Thanks! I've gone with the solution that Marcus Shared.

[GastonRiera]

Marcus,

Thanks a lot! I've never imagined a simple solution as this one.

For the template, i've chosen one from here: https://w3layouts.com/?s=404
For the .htaccess, that tutorial was really handy.