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When requesting an invalid page web2py generates a default 400 error page.

This can be overwritten. There are at least three ways:

1) If you use mod_proxy you can set in the apache config file

ProxyErrorOverride On

Then you can filter error messages using mod_include SSI and render them as you like.

2) You create a routes.py file in web2py/ as discussed in a previous post. You need to explicitly list all the allowed routes and add a catch all invalid routes at the end, for example:

('^.*:.*$','/examples/default/index')

will render all invalid urls as '/examples/default/index'

3) On error web2py also adds a header web2py_error to the http response. You can easily create wsgi app that wraps web2py wsgibase and filters response accodingly.

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