{"id": "custom_templates:custom-pages-404", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "custom-pages-404", "title": "Returning 404s", "content": "To indicate that content could not be found and display the default 404 page you can use the raise_404(message) function: \n {% if not rows %}\n {{ raise_404(\"Content not found\") }}\n{% endif %} \n If you call raise_404() the other content in your template will be ignored.", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\", \"Custom pages\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "custom_templates:custom-pages-headers", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "custom-pages-headers", "title": "Custom headers and status codes", "content": "Custom pages default to being served with a content-type of text/html; charset=utf-8 and a 200 status code. You can change these by calling a custom function from within your template. \n For example, to serve a custom page with a 418 I'm a teapot HTTP status code, create a file in pages/teapot.html containing the following: \n {{ custom_status(418) }}\n\nTeapot\n\nI'm a teapot\n\n \n To serve a custom HTTP header, add a custom_header(name, value) function call. For example: \n {{ custom_status(418) }}\n{{ custom_header(\"x-teapot\", \"I am\") }}\n\nTeapot\n\nI'm a teapot\n\n \n You can verify this is working using curl like this: \n $ curl -I 'http://127.0.0.1:8001/teapot'\nHTTP/1.1 418\ndate: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 18:38:30 GMT\nserver: uvicorn\nx-teapot: I am\ncontent-type: text/html; charset=utf-8", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\", \"Custom pages\"]", "references": "[]"} {"id": "custom_templates:custom-pages-parameters", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "custom-pages-parameters", "title": "Path parameters for pages", "content": "You can define custom pages that match multiple paths by creating files with {variable} definitions in their filenames. \n For example, to capture any request to a URL matching /about/* , you would create a template in the following location: \n templates/pages/about/{slug}.html \n A hit to /about/news would render that template and pass in a variable called slug with a value of \"news\" . \n If you use this mechanism don't forget to return a 404 if the referenced content could not be found. You can do this using {{ raise_404() }} described below. \n Templates defined using custom page routes work particularly well with the sql() template function from datasette-template-sql or the graphql() template function from datasette-graphql .", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\", \"Custom pages\"]", "references": "[{\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette-template-sql\", \"label\": \"datasette-template-sql\"}, {\"href\": \"https://github.com/simonw/datasette-graphql#the-graphql-template-function\", \"label\": \"datasette-graphql\"}]"} {"id": "custom_templates:custom-pages-redirects", "page": "custom_templates", "ref": "custom-pages-redirects", "title": "Custom redirects", "content": "You can use the custom_redirect(location) function to redirect users to another page, for example in a file called pages/datasette.html : \n {{ custom_redirect(\"https://github.com/simonw/datasette\") }} \n Now requests to http://localhost:8001/datasette will result in a redirect. \n These redirects are served with a 302 Found status code by default. You can send a 301 Moved Permanently code by passing 301 as the second argument to the function: \n {{ custom_redirect(\"https://github.com/simonw/datasette\", 301) }}", "breadcrumbs": "[\"Custom pages and templates\", \"Custom pages\"]", "references": "[]"}