[Typo3] Home Page - Clean URL & Menu Item

[Matt Valenti]

Beautiful - this is exactly what I was hoping to do.  Thank you!

"Christoph Koehler" <christoph.koehler at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1.1120071526.32586.typo3-english at lists.netfielders.de...
> click on your WebsiteName icon in the pagetree, edit page header, and 
> change the style from page or whatever it is to shortcut. Then make sure 
> you add the Home page to the 'Shortcut to page' list by clicking the 
> 'open' -looking icon next to it and then picking 'home' from the page tree 
> that should pop up. Save, exit, and watch it work :)
>
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> On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:07:52 -0500, Matt Valenti <mv at mattvalenti.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> I'd like to setup the following basic site structure (as example):
>>
>> Home
>> About
>> Contact
>>
>> I'd like to be able to go to www.mywebsite.com and have it default to the
>> home page and also keep this url in the address bar of the browser. 
>> (i.e.
>> not www.mywebsite.com/index.php?id=)
>>
>> So I have the following tree structure.  I use the following structure so
>> that I can add multiple websites in the future.  Perhaps this is an 
>> issue.
>>
>> SiteName
>>    WebsiteName
>>       Home
>>       About
>>       Contact
>>
>> When I go to www.mywebsite.com I get the contents of the page 
>> WebsiteName.
>> I'd like to show the contents of the Home page instead.  I can put a
>> redirect on the WebsiteName page to go to Home but then the url contains
>> index.php in it.
>>
>> Maybe this is just the default behavior of Typo3.  I've looked at a 
>> number
>> of Typo3 sites that do not have a Home page in the menu.  Instead 
>> clicking
>> on the banner takes you back to the home page (e.g. typo3.org).  But I 
>> was
>> hoping there were some settings I was overlooking to set it to work
>> differently.
>>
>> This seems like a question that must have been answered somewhere before 
>> but
>> I can't find it in the FAQ, How To or Newsgroup.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Matt
>>
>>
>>
>>
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