On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 2:37 AM, Dj Gilcrease <digitalx...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Michael<newmani...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:30 PM, josebrwn <joseb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> If Debug = True, you can have a flatpage with URL = "/" that is
> >> handled by FlatpageFallbackMiddleware:
> >>
> >> MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
> >>    ...
> >>    'django.contrib.flatpages.middleware.FlatpageFallbackMiddleware',
> >> )
> >>
> >> If Debug = False, the flatpage will 404.  Is there a way to have a
> >> flatpage as your site's index/home page, and have debugging turned
> >> off?
> >
> > I do this all the time. It works the same not-depending on the DEBUG
> > setting. It should work.
> > Do you have 500.html and 404.html templates in your template directory?
> That
> > is the only thing that I can think that would behave differently here.
> > How is it not working? A little more specifics will help us out greatly,
> > Michael
>
> I have this issues as well, and I have a 404 and 500 html file in my
> template directory. I still get a internal server error (not my 500
> error page) when I turn debug off and have a flatpage url set to /. It
> works as long as debugging is on and since the two sites I use a flat
> pages as the home page get less then 500 hits a month I just leave it
> on
>

There's got to be something else here. I run the root directory as a
flatpages all the time, no problems on multiple versions of Django, with a
lot of different configurations. I need more information, like a urls.py
file, how you set up the flatpages and the actual traceback from the 500
errors to give you a hand here.

Michael

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