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Fixed #17538 -- corrected the section in tutorial 3 about the handler404 default. Thanks matt at brozowski dot com for the report. 

Backport of r17369 from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.3.X@17370 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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Carl Meyer 2012-01-12 22:17:22 +00:00
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@ -365,16 +365,15 @@ have no effect), which is a string in Python dotted syntax -- the same
format the normal URLconf callbacks use. A 404 view itself has nothing
special: It's just a normal view.
You normally won't have to bother with writing 404 views. By default, URLconfs
have the following line up top::
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: To 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``.
from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
That takes care of setting ``handler404`` in the current module. As you can see
in ``django/conf/urls/defaults.py``, ``handler404`` is set to
:func:`django.views.defaults.page_not_found` by default.
Four more things to note about 404 views:
A couple more things to note about 404 views:
* If :setting:`DEBUG` is set to ``True`` (in your settings module) then your
404 view will never be used (and thus the ``404.html`` template will never
@ -383,15 +382,6 @@ Four more things to note about 404 views:
* The 404 view is also called if Django doesn't find a match after checking
every regular expression in the URLconf.
* If you don't define your own 404 view -- and simply use the default, which
is recommended -- you still have one obligation: To 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``.
Write a 500 (server error) view
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