Django raising 404 with a message

Question

I like to raise 404 with some error message at different places in the script eg: Http404("some error msg: %s" %msg) So, in my urls.py I included:

handler404 = Custom404.as_view()

Can anyone please tell me how should I be handling the error in my views. I'm fairly new to Django, so an example would help a lot.
Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Yes we can show specific exception message when raise Http404.

Pass some exception message like this

raise Http404('Any kind of message ')

Add 404.html page into templates directory.

templates/404.html

{{exception}}

Answer 2

if you want to raise some sort of static messages for a particular view , you can do as follows:-

from django.http import Http404

def my_view(request):
  raise Http404("The link seems to be broken")