Question

I would like to show an 404 error if there’s no proper entry in project_name/urls.py.

I read Writing your first Django app but i don’t understood how to create a general error – not only for an app.

So i tried this:

1. TEMPLATE_DIRS = /var/www/first/templates
2. echo “404 ERROR” > /var/www/first/templates/404.html

3. in /var/www/first/urls.py:

   from django.http import Http404
   try: 
       ...
       url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
       ... 
   except: 
       raise Http404
   

After all i still get a 500 error if i call an unknown url.

Answer 1

It works with following in /var/www/first/urls.py

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url

from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
...,
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
...,
)