Fixed #18807 -- Made 404.html and 500.html optional

Thanks Aymeric Augustin for the report and Jannis Leidel for the
review.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
index d6f95008de..f3501026f8 100644
--- a/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
+++ b/docs/intro/tutorial03.txt
@@ -366,11 +366,10 @@ special: It's just a normal view.
 
 You normally won't have to bother with writing 404 views. If you don't set
 ``handler404``, the built-in view :func:`django.views.defaults.page_not_found`
-is used by default. In this case, you still have one obligation: create a
-``404.html`` template in the root of your template directory. The default 404
-view will use that template for all 404 errors. If :setting:`DEBUG` is set to
-``False`` (in your settings module) and if you didn't create a ``404.html``
-file, an ``Http500`` is raised instead. So remember to create a ``404.html``.
+is used by default. Optionally, you can create a ``404.html`` template
+in the root of your template directory. The default 404 view will then use that
+template for all 404 errors when :setting:`DEBUG` is set to ``False`` (in your
+settings module).
 
 A couple more things to note about 404 views: