Laravel 5.x Dispaly Custom Error Page on Exception and Error

In this quick and small blog I am going to explain how to create custom error page for your Laravel 5.x project.

Laravel 5.x have custom exception handler class which you will find in app/Exceptions/Handler.php

If you open this file, you will see below code.

/**
* Render an exception into an HTTP response.
*
* @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request
* @param  \Exception  $e
* @return \Illuminate\Http\Response
*/
public function render($request, Exception $e)
{
return parent::render($request, $e);
}

This code renders exceptions on your HTTP response and your end users will actually see following pages.

That's really embarrassing for your end users as they don't understand what is this all about. So best practice is to hide this types of errors and show custom error page to users. For that add a error page view in your project and render it on exception. Modify above function as follow.

/**

     * Render an exception into an HTTP response.

     *

     * @param  \Illuminate\Http\Request  $request

     * @param  \Exception  $e

     * @return \Illuminate\Http\Response

     */

    public function render($request, Exception $e)

    {

        return response()->view('errors.index');

    } 

That's it and now you will have custom error page in your laravel app.