I would like to throw a 404 when a user tries to access something that doesn't exist, like trying to access a non-existent comment by providing a comment id that doesn't exist in the database. In these cases, web2py will throw an exception and point to a ticket (ie, NoneType has no attribute 'id' or something).
Instead, I'd like to throw up a custom 404 page which I have created. This seems possible with routes_onerror (taken from the docs): ('*/404', '/init/static/cantfind.html') However, my understanding from other threads is that this would not preserve the error code. I found a nice example that points routes_onerror to a custom error handler, which will then preserve the error code: http://www.web2pyslices.com/slice/show/1529/custom-error-routing In that code slice, it just returns a string like "Not found" for the errors. How would I have web2py redirect to my custom_404.html instead? Then, in my controller, would I still do something like: if not comment: raise HTTP(404, 'sorry, that post does not exist') Even though the message 'sorry, that post does not exist' doesn't matter anymore? I would be displaying my custom_404.html instead of this message? -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.