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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: