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authorTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2013-08-01 18:07:59 -0400
committerTim Graham <timograham@gmail.com>2013-08-01 18:07:59 -0400
commit31ee1207877578ad683c1d4f3aed47fc6dc7637e (patch)
tree67f4060ff80d6429dc668eb564b292c0d0f1f22d /docs/topics
parent5df84b268de45fffd90930e6442eb511cba71f5f (diff)
Fixed #20667 - Removed discussion of DEBUG from tutorial.
Forward-port of 3493f18d78 from master.
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diff --git a/docs/topics/http/views.txt b/docs/topics/http/views.txt
index 5c27c9c958..ebe5302ef8 100644
--- a/docs/topics/http/views.txt
+++ b/docs/topics/http/views.txt
@@ -140,18 +140,18 @@ The 404 (page not found) view
.. function:: django.views.defaults.page_not_found(request, template_name='404.html')
-When you raise an ``Http404`` exception, Django loads a special view devoted
-to handling 404 errors. By default, it's the view
-``django.views.defaults.page_not_found``, which either produces a very simple
-"Not Found" message or loads and renders the template ``404.html`` if you
-created it in your root template directory.
+When you raise :exc:`~django.http.Http404` from within a view, Django loads a
+special view devoted to handling 404 errors. By default, it's the view
+:func:`django.views.defaults.page_not_found`, which either produces a very
+simple "Not Found" message or loads and renders the template ``404.html`` if
+you created it in your root template directory.
The default 404 view will pass one variable to the template: ``request_path``,
which is the URL that resulted in the error.
The ``page_not_found`` view should suffice for 99% of Web applications, but if
-you want to override it, you can specify ``handler404`` in your URLconf, like
-so::
+you want to override it, you can specify ``handler404`` in your root URLconf
+(setting ``handler404`` anywhere else will have no effect), like so::
handler404 = 'mysite.views.my_custom_404_view'