Question

If I try and access some random string in the URL of my rails app, such as /asdfasdifjasdfkj then I am seeing a rails error message

Routing Error

No route matches '/asdfasdifjasdfkj' with {:method=>:get}

Even though I am in production mode. Clearly I don’t want any real users to see this, and would prefer a 404 page. Anyone know whats going wrong and how I fix it?

Answer 1

To get 404 you need to run server in production environment and use external ip address rather than local/loopback ip address in the url.

You can also force controller to consider all your requests as local:

  def local_request?     return false   end