From 8bd7b598b6de1be1e3f72f3a1ee62803b1c02010 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Claude Paroz Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 23:16:14 +0200 Subject: Fixed #18807 -- Made 404.html and 500.html optional Thanks Aymeric Augustin for the report and Jannis Leidel for the review. --- docs/intro/tutorial03.txt | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/intro/tutorial03.txt') 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: -- cgit v1.3