# routs question

**URL:** <https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/routs-question/42892>\
**Category:** rubyonrails-talk\
**Created:** [May 26, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/routs-question/42892 "2009-05-26T23:37:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/routs-question/42892/1 "2009-05-26T23:37:07Z")

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I would like to redirect a user to the index page if they type in a page that does not exist on my site. How do I go about that?

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**Author:** ![Darrik\_Mazey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Darrik\_Mazey](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Darrik_Mazey)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/routs-question/42892/2 "2009-05-27T01:12:19Z")

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Sam Ginko wrote:

> I would like to redirect a user to the index page if they type in a page that does not exist on my site. How do I go about that?

The following as your last route, will catch any other requests that don't match any other routes.

map.blanket\_route '\*path', :controller =\> 'whatever', :action =\> 'some\_action'

Hope that helps.

Darrik