Answers.Body: <p>When you create a route, the slugs that you use ('year', ' month', 'day') will be made available in your templates as variables. You will need to use these to retrieve the entry(ies) your looking for. Something like:</p>
  
  <p><em>Update: Sorry, first version had major errors, should be better now.</em></p>
  
  <pre><code>{% set datetime = year ~ '-' ~ month ~ '-' ~ day %}
  {% set entries = craft.entries.section('articles').postDate('and', '&gt;= ' ~ datetime, '&lt; ' ~ datetime|date_modify('+1 day')) %}
  
  {% if entries %}
  
      {% for entry in entries %}
          &lt;article&gt;
              &lt;h1&gt;{{ entry.title }}&lt;/h1&gt;
              {{ entry.body }}
          &lt;/article&gt;
      {% endfor %}    
  
  {% else %}
      &lt;article&gt;
          &lt;p&gt;There are no entries for this date.&lt;p&gt;
      &lt;/article&gt;
  {% endif %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Untested, but should be close. See <a href="https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/1821/get-entries-by-date-but-ignore-time">this question</a> for another example.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm porting a site from EE and I'm running into an issue with an existing URL structure not working using routes.</p>
  
  <p>Existing URL Structure: /articles/[year]/[month]/[day]/</p>
  
  <p>I tried creating a route for the above to the articles/index template but it seems no matter what I try I'm returned the 404 page.</p>
  
  <p>Because of the nature of the site, we need users to be routed to the articles/index template no matter what the three child slugs are and then we can display appropriate messaging if an article doesn't exist for the specific date/URL.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Update</strong></p>
  
  <p>It would appear this must be user error as now the expected outcome is working correctly.</p>
  
  <p>Route: articles/[year]/[month]/[day]</p>
  
  <p>Is properly routing users to the articles/index template whether or not an entry exists.</p>
  
Tags: <routes>
Title: Catch all routes
ThreadText: # Catch all routes
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-11-24)
  
  I'm porting a site from EE and I'm running into an issue with an existing URL structure not working using routes.
  
  Existing URL Structure: /articles/[year]/[month]/[day]/
  
  I tried creating a route for the above to the articles/index template but it seems no matter what I try I'm returned the 404 page.
  
  Because of the nature of the site, we need users to be routed to the articles/index template no matter what the three child slugs are and then we can display appropriate messaging if an article doesn't exist for the specific date/URL.
  
  **Update**
  
  It would appear this must be user error as now the expected outcome is working correctly.
  
  Route: articles/[year]/[month]/[day]
  
  Is properly routing users to the articles/index template whether or not an entry exists.
  
  **Tags:** routes
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-11-24. Score: 2
  
  When you create a route, the slugs that you use ('year', ' month', 'day') will be made available in your templates as variables. You will need to use these to retrieve the entry(ies) your looking for. Something like:
  
  *Update: Sorry, first version had major errors, should be better now.*
  
  ```
  {% set datetime = year ~ '-' ~ month ~ '-' ~ day %}
  {% set entries = craft.entries.section('articles').postDate('and', '>= ' ~ datetime, '< ' ~ datetime|date_modify('+1 day')) %}
  
  {% if entries %}
  
      {% for entry in entries %}
          <article>
              <h1>{{ entry.title }}</h1>
              {{ entry.body }}
          </article>
      {% endfor %}    
  
  {% else %}
      <article>
          <p>There are no entries for this date.<p>
      </article>
  {% endif %}
  
  ```
  
  Untested, but should be close. See [this question](https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/1821/get-entries-by-date-but-ignore-time) for another example.
  
  
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