Handle 404 and 500 errors easy with this snippet in your main Django views.py file. No urls.py configuration needed.

views.py

from django.shortcuts import render_to_response
from django.template import RequestContext


def handler404(request):
    response = render_to_response('404.html', {},
                                  context_instance=RequestContext(request))
    response.status_code = 404
    return response


def handler500(request):
    response = render_to_response('500.html', {},
                                  context_instance=RequestContext(request))
    response.status_code = 500
    return response