This Django app allows you to specify a default 403 Forbidden page simply by creating a 403.html template file.  This file will get rendered every time a view in your Django application returns a vanilla, empty HttpResponseForbidden response object.

Download

You can download it on either GitHub or Gitorious.

Install

1. download the files into a directory called django403
2. Add 'django403.middleware.Django403Middleware' to MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES in your settings.py file
3. Create a 403.html template file.

Usage

To trigger the template in your own views, simply use the statement:

return django.http.HttpResponseForbidden()

If you do not create a 403.html template file, or the app is not able to find your 403.html, then a plain hard-coded error page modeled after the Apache default 403 page will be displayed.

Caveat

I have only tested this using Google App Engine Helper for Django and the stock Google App Engine Django 0.96.  Patches to fix problems in other environments/Django versions are greatly appreciated.

Feedback / Bug reports

Please give your feedback, report bugs or contribute patches on the Github project page.