Create custom 404 error for each app on my django project?

Question

is there a way to create multiple custom errors templates for each app on my Django project, I mean, in my project I got 3 apps I will show 3 different customs 404 error per each app.

Right now I'm showing the same 404 error page for my back office app and front office.

Gwynethgwynne

Are you talking about self raised 404 messages (such as get_object_or_404) or that are caused by undefined URLs? – Escape

Answer 1

Create a custom error view and assign it to handler404 variable in your root urls.py:

from django.views.defaults import page_not_found

def my_error_404(request, exception):
    template_name = '404.html'
    if request.path.startswith('/backoffice/'):
        template_name='backoffice/404.html'
    elif request.path.startswith('/frontoffice/'):
        template_name='frontoffice/404.html'
    return page_not_found(request, exception, template_name=template_name)

This code is for django 1.9. If you use django <= 1.9 then remove the exception parameter from the view.

Nematic

Here's an updated link for documentation on how to implement an error view: docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.1/topics/http/views/… – Storm