Remove discussion of DEBUG from the tutorial

[sosdog88@…]

Hey,

Just finished reading tutorial 6 - one of the earlier tutorials alluded to switching the 'debug' flag to false, which I did - problematically, this stops automatic static file hosting on the development server! (I found this out by looking at the linked notes on static hosting, which were very good though.)

Would it be worth including a note about the setting of the debug flag in tutorial 6?

Cheers!

[Tim Graham]

I'd actually be more inclined to remove the mention of turning DEBUG to False as that has caused other problems in the past, most notably with ALLOWED_HOSTS. Of course if we did that, we'd probably want to remove the sections about "Write a 404 (page not found) view" and "Write a 500 (server error) view". Not sure these topics really need to be mentioned in the tutorial though. Curious to hear other opinions.

[Carl Meyer]

Replying to timo:

I'd actually be more inclined to remove the mention of turning DEBUG to False as that has caused other problems in the past, most notably with ALLOWED_HOSTS. Of course if we did that, we'd probably want to remove the sections about "Write a 404 (page not found) view" and "Write a 500 (server error) view". Not sure these topics really need to be mentioned in the tutorial though. Curious to hear other opinions.

I agree. These topics are out of place in the tutorial. Now that we have a deployment checklist (which already discusses ALLOWED_HOSTS and DEBUG anyway) I think it would make a lot more sense to move the discussion of writing 404 and 500 templates there, and don't change DEBUG in the tutorial at all.

I think the tutorial should also link to the deployment checklist prominently in the "what to read next" page ("when you're ready to deploy this project for public use, here are the steps you'll need to think about").

[Aymeric Augustin]

+1 on Carl's plan.

The section about 404 and 500 templates that comes very early in the tutorial often confuses beginners.

[Claude Paroz]

+1 to remove the matching sections in the tutorial. However, in the checklist, I'd rather stress the usefulness of custom templates (404.html, 500.html) instead of custom views (which as stated are OK for 99% of cases).

[Claude Paroz]

Great, thanks!

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In 3493f18d7850236dcb6292ebb1b949d6aeed7a9c:

[1.6.x] Fixed #20667 - Removed discussion of DEBUG from tutorial.

Backport of 0d642aac86 from master.

[Tim Graham <timograham@…>]

In 31ee1207877578ad683c1d4f3aed47fc6dc7637e:

Fixed #20667 - Removed discussion of DEBUG from tutorial.

Forward-port of 3493f18d78 from master.