Is it possible to enable a 404 custom view for a Django application without changing anything at the project level?

Question

I am creating a Django application and trying to make it as small as possible on the containing project.

I created a custom 404 view that works as expected, but only when I add handler404 to the urls.py project urls.py .

I want the custom view 404 that I wrote to apply only to this particular application, but from the information I came across it seems like this might not be possible. Adding handler404 to the urls.py application level has no effect.

Does Django support custom 404 views at the application level?

Answer 1

Instead of ending the scan with:

 return render_to_response(...) 

Get the response object and check its status:

 out = render_to_response(...) if out.status_code==404: # redirect to your 404 page else: return out