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PHP Building Websites with PHP Contact Form & Sending Email Named Routes

Posted by Erika Nielsen
Erika Nielsen
17,556 Points

'/contact' route not routing

My contact link results in a 404, however my about link works fine.

In my index.php I have

$app->get('/',function() use($app){
    $app->render('about.twig');
})->name('home');

$app->get('/contact',function() use($app){
    $app->render('contact.twig');
})->name('contact');

and in my main.twig

<a href="{{ baseUrl() }}" class="selected">About</a>

<a href="{{ siteUrl('contact') }}">Contact</a>

the HTML that is rendered shows the correct file path. Why am I getting a 404 on this when the about works just fine? It is driving me nuts. Please pardon the odd formatting.

2 Answers

Aamir Mirza
Aamir Mirza
25,077 Points
Aamir Mirza
Aamir Mirza
25,077 Points

You forgot the backslash (/) before "contact" in your main.twig. So instead of: 

<a href="{{ siteUrl('contact') }}">Contact</a>

It should be:

<a href="{{ siteUrl('/contact') }}">Contact</a>

I hope that works :)

Erika Nielsen
Erika Nielsen
17,556 Points
Erika Nielsen
Erika Nielsen
17,556 Points

Thank you for the response. It turned out that I had neglected to move the htdocs file when I moved the folder.