# serve media in development mode and expose the 400/500 docs for testing if settings.DEVELOPMENT_MODE: urlpatterns += patterns('', url(r"%s(?P.*)$" % settings.MEDIA_URL[1:], 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}), url(r'^500/$', 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template', {'template': '500.html'}), url(r'^404/$', 'django.views.generic.simple.direct_to_template', {'template': '404.html'}), )