diff --git a/wagtail/project_template/project_name/templates/500.html b/wagtail/project_template/project_name/templates/500.html index 77379e5588..62ffeb63fe 100644 --- a/wagtail/project_template/project_name/templates/500.html +++ b/wagtail/project_template/project_name/templates/500.html @@ -1,4 +1,11 @@ - +{% comment %} +This error template is intentionally left as static HTML to ensure that it is still renderable even +during system-wide failures such as a missing database. + +Any Django template tags here - including this comment - will be processed at the point of cloning +the project template with `wagtail start`, and not during page rendering (unless escaped with +'templatetag'). +{% endcomment %}