In your example, when testing the 404 page, you wrote that you're no longer visiting a url under http://localhost:8000, but now you're visiting a url under http://fairware:8000 – was this an error in your post or were you actually checking the wrong server?
The testserver will handle 404 pages properly if you have DEBUG=False. What I would do to test this is: 1. Set DEBUG=True 2. Run the test server and go to a page that shows the debug mode 404 page not found 3. Change to DEBUG=False 4. Reload the page (the test server doesn't require restart) 5. If you have a template in the root of one of your template dirs named 404.html — then it should work If it still doesn't work after that, maybe check to see if you have any non-standard settings in your settings file like, maybe you removed this option from your TEMPLATE_LOADERS: 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source', or maybe you setup something weird for "handler404" in your urls.py file. Good luck! Peter On Sep 6, 3:33 pm, moreeon <morgan.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, I'm struggling with an issue my girlfriend says is > "ironic". I can't get my custom 404 page to show. I've broken this > down to the simplest possible case. Here's what I did: > > Create a new project called "experiment" in /home/me/experiment and > add a directory to that called templates. Here's the contents of /home/ > me/experiment/experiment: > > __init__.py > manage.py > settings.py > templates > urls.py > > modify the following in settings.py: > DEBUG = False > TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( > # Put strings here, like "/home/html/django_templates" or "C:/www/ > django/templates". > # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows. > # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths. > "/home/me/experiment/experiment/templates" > ) > > start up the testserver and go to > > http://localhost:8000/osdijfosdijf > > and get > > "TemplateDoesNotExist: 500.html". > > OK, makes sense. Now add 500.html to the ..../experiment/templates > directory. Contents are "500 page". > > revisit: > > http://localhost:8000/osdijfosdijf > > again and see > > "500 page" > > Perfect. Now the weird part. Add a "404.html" to the same templates > directory and put this in it: > > "404 page" > > and again go to > > http://fairware:8000/sdfdf > > now firefox says: > > "Cannot Complete Request > > Additional information about this problem or error is currently > unavailable" > > here's what gets spat out of the testserver when I submit the request: > > [06/Sep/2009 17:55:20] "GET /sdfdf HTTP/1.1" 404 9 > > I feel like there isn't much to be missed here, but that I must have > missed it. If I create a file called "404.html" in my root template > directory, shouldn't I see the contents of that file when I get a 404? > Obviously django is finding the template. > > I'm using django 1.1 with python 2.6 on ubuntu jaunty. I've (mis?)read > all of the django docs I can find on this. If anyone has incite, > please share. > > Thank You --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
