Update 1: Please refer this updated article for Django 2.0 and source code.
It happens very frequently that a visitor on your website typed a wrong URL or the page user is looking for no longer exists. What do you do to handle such cases.
You have three options.
- Redirect the visitor to home page, silently.
- Show a boring 404 page and then ask them to click on a link.
- Create your own funny/awesome/informative custom 404 error page.
In this article we will discuss the third option.
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