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-rw-r--r--django/contrib/staticfiles/views.py7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/django/contrib/staticfiles/views.py b/django/contrib/staticfiles/views.py
index 123a01a557..5df1a3eced 100644
--- a/django/contrib/staticfiles/views.py
+++ b/django/contrib/staticfiles/views.py
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ def serve(request, path, document_root=None, insecure=False, **kwargs):
in your URLconf.
- It automatically falls back to django.views.static
+ It uses the django.views.static view to serve the found files.
"""
if not settings.DEBUG and not insecure:
raise ImproperlyConfigured("The staticfiles view can only be used in "
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ def serve(request, path, document_root=None, insecure=False, **kwargs):
"option of 'runserver' is used")
normalized_path = posixpath.normpath(urllib.unquote(path)).lstrip('/')
absolute_path = finders.find(normalized_path)
- if absolute_path:
- document_root, path = os.path.split(absolute_path)
+ if not absolute_path:
+ raise Http404("'%s' could not be found" % path)
+ document_root, path = os.path.split(absolute_path)
return static.serve(request, path, document_root=document_root, **kwargs)