Change or remove home page

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I am using Kirby as CMS only, is there a way to change the home page to other than home.php?

kirby is on a folder on the root of mydomain.com

http://mydomain.com/kirby/home -> gets json home content

how do I make this redirect whitout losing the above?
http://mydomain.com/kirby/ to kirby's panel?

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But http://mydomain.com/kirby/already calls the home page, no need to add home to the URL. Kirby 2.3.0 automatically redirects from http://mydomain.com/kirby/home to http://mydomain.com/kirby/ anyway.

If you just want to rename the home folder, you can do that in your config.php.

c::set('home', 'something-else');
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What do you mean by “as CMS only”? Kirby is a CMS, so you can’t actually use it as anything else. :smiley:

To be honest I also don’t really understand what you are trying to do? Do you just want to use a different template for the page /home? If so, you just need to rename the text file inside /content/home/home.txt to the template name you need.

Also please note that the home page can be accessed from http://mydomain.com/kirby/ without the folder name of the page. It’s a home page after all. :slight_smile:

As I wrote above, this URL is served by the home page. You can however use a route to redirect:

c::set('routes', array(
  array(
    'pattern' => '/',
    'action'  => function() {
      go('panel');
    }
  )
));
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I think what @Chris_Pugliese means is that he uses Kirby to manage contents and then provide the content as json to be used somewhere else.

5

Sorry for the bad formulated question.

@texnixe got it right, I am only using Kirby as json provider

My problem is that I have this:

  1. domain.com/kirby = this shows the home template content (json)
  2. domain.com/kirby/home = also shows home template content (json), <- correct!

I guess a better question is:
how do I make domain.com/kirby (1) redirect to domain.com/kirby/panel/? whithout losing access to (2)

@texnix, this seems to work, but shows a blank page, how do I redirect to panel?
c::set('home', 'something');

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Ok, I did a quick test:

If you set the home page to another one, let’s say about (while leaving the home folder intact)

c::set('home', 'about');

Then you could use the following route:

c::set('routes', array(
  array(
    'pattern' => '/',
    'action'  => function() {
      header::redirect('http://domain/kirby/panel');
    }
  )
));

to redirect to the panel.

The home URL would still work, as well as any other folders. To be tested some more.

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seems to work,

c::set('home', 'redirect');

  • your c::set(‘routes’…

I created a ‘redirect’ folder on content
and for its template:
<?php header( 'Location: /kirby/panel' ) ; ?>

Thanks a lot!