Re: What goes in 500.html?

On 24/07/10 20:14, Michael Hipp wrote:
> What should go in a proper 500.html page?

As little as you can get away with; it's for when your server has
screwed up.

However, you probably want to make it distinguishable from the
apache-level 500 page, in a manner you can ask a user reporting a
failure a single simple question to tell the difference. At one stage I
had the bright idea of making them look the exact same for appearances'
sake. That was dumb.

> Is some content fed to it that
> should be displayed?
>
Not really, it's intended to be pretty static, something that django has
a hope of outputting even in a royally messed up config.

> Similarly for 404.html?
>

That's a bit different, put pictures of kittens or whatever you want.

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