Re: What goes in 500.html?

Thanks for a helpful and complete answer, David.
Michael

On 7/26/2010 6:24 AM, David De La Harpe Golden wrote:
> 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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