Ticket #11092: append_slash_doc.patch

docs/ref/settings.txt

@@ -94 +94 @@
 ``CommonMiddleware`` is installed (see :ref:`topics-http-middleware`). See also
 ``PREPEND_WWW``.
 
+How it works is that when a URL cannot be found (404), the server will issue
+a redirect to the URL appended with a trailing slash. 
+
+Note that when ``DEBUG`` is turned on, this setting is disabled. This is 
+because when you're debugging, generally, you want to actually see errors, 
+rather than have the server try to fix them for you.
+
 .. setting:: AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS
 
 AUTHENTICATION_BACKENDS