custom 404 page

How do you have your controller setup? Do you have your controller named "error" and then function called "error404"? As 200 is a success response....

I have mine setup as a main controller (main.php) with all the default pages (Including error pages)

So controller main.php

PHP Code:

defined('BASEPATH') OR exit('No direct script access allowed');

class Main extends CI_Controller {
    public function __construct() {
        parent::__construct();
    }

    public function error_404() {
        $data['page_name'] = '404 Not Found';

        $this->load->view('static/header', $data);
        $this->load->view('static/404');
        $this->load->view('static/footer');
    }
} 


I have more stuff for if user is logged in etc. but this is the basics of it.

Hi

yeah the controller is named error with a function named error404

Everything is working except, if you look into google chrome network inspector you will see this page when loaded is not a true 404 status, its a 200 becasue its a page that is being loaded, rather than the default 404 page that is called when a destination cant be found on the server.

SO I added the status 404 to the function and then everything seemed fine, as google was reporting the custom 404 page was indeed a status of 404..

However anything that is not in routes, or is not findable through controller / method is now also being reported as a 404 (as far as i can gather) which means the admin folder which is not part of the CI installation will no longer load its content?

Not sure how to fix this?

Paul