Redirect any urls to 404.html if not found in urls.py in django

Question

How can I redirect any kind of url patterns to a created page "404.html" page if it doesn't exist in the urls.py rather than being shown the error by django.

Answer 1

There is no need to change anything in your view or url. Just do these 2 steps, in your settings.py, do the following

DEBUG = False
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ["*"]

And in your app directory (myapp in this example), create myapp/templates/404.html where 404.html is your custom error page. That is it.

Answer 2

Make a view that'll render your created 404.html and set it as handler404 in urls.py.

handler404 = 'app.views.404_view'

Django will render debug view if debug is enabled. Else it'll render 404 page as specified in handler404 for all types of pages if it doesn't exist.

Django documentation on Customizing error views.

Check this answer for a complete example.

Answer 3

In your views.py, just add the following code (No need to change anything in urls.py).

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext


def handler404(request):
    response = render_to_response('404.html', {},
                              context_instance=RequestContext(request))
    response.status_code = 404
    return response

Put a custom 404.html in templates directory.

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