How can I change the "page not found" message?

Question

I want to change the page not found error message.

Recently, message shows like The requested page could not be found. I want to show The requested page "/nvzmx,nvm,zxnv," could not be found.

I don't want to create a custom page. I only want to change the error message given in the page not found page.

Answer 1

You can do this by overwriting the route system.404 with a custom controller:

mymodule/src/Controller/MyHttp4xxController.php

<?php

namespace Drupal\mymodule\Controller;

use Drupal\Core\Controller\ControllerBase;

class MyHttp4xxController extends ControllerBase {

  public function on404() {
    return [
      '#markup' => $this->t('Custom 404 message'),
    ];
  }

mymodule.routing.yml

system.404:
  path: '/system/404'
  defaults:
    _controller: '\Drupal\mymodule\Controller\MyHttp4xxController:on404'
    _title: 'Page not found'
  requirements:
    _access: 'TRUE'

mymodule.install

<?php

function mymodule_install() {
  module_set_weight('mymodule', 1);
}

You have to be sure, that your module runs after the system module, so that you can overwrite the route from the system module. This is why you need to set the module weight to 1. You need to reinstall the module, when you implement this.