diff --git a/core/views/expo.py b/core/views/expo.py
index 7ab9279d8..709e63ff6 100644
--- a/core/views/expo.py
+++ b/core/views/expo.py
@@ -333,18 +333,20 @@ def expopage(request, path):
             + "<h3>UTF-8 Parsing Failure:<br>Default file encoding on this Troggle installation is not UTF-8:<br>failure detected in expowebpage in views.expo.py</h3> Please Please reconfigure Debian/Apache/Django to fix this, i.e. contact Wookey. </body"
         )
 
+    meta = request.META
     try:
         content = open(filetobeopened, "rb")
         content_type = getmimetype(path)
         return HttpResponse(content=content, content_type=content_type)
-    except Exception as e:
-        meta = request.META
-        message = f" ! - 404 '{e}' '{path=}' {meta['REMOTE_ADDR']=}  "
-        #{request.META['REMOTE_ADDR']} {request.META['REMOTE_HOST']} {request.META['REMOTE_USER']} {request.META['HTTP_USER_AGENT']} "
-        #print(message)
+    except FileNotFoundError as e:
+        message = f" ! - 404 FileNotFound REMOTE_ADDR: {meta['REMOTE_ADDR']}' /{path}'"
         DataIssue.objects.create(parser="view404", message=message)   
-        
         return render(request, "pagenotfound.html", {"path": path}, status=404)
+    except Exception as e:
+        message = f" ! - 404? REMOTE_ADDR: {meta['REMOTE_ADDR']}' /{path}' {e}"
+        DataIssue.objects.create(parser="view404", message=message)   
+        return render(request, "pagenotfound.html", {"path": path}, status=404)
+      
 
 
 def getmimetype(path):