[TYPO3-english] Home page url

[Christopher Affleck]

> On 02/13/2012 02:08 PM, Christopher Affleck wrote:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I am developing a site using Typo3 and have started with the tutorials
> > and they all seem to recommend using a shortcut as the root page.
> >
> > So I have the following be structure:
> > Root (Shortcut to id=2)
> >      |- Home (id=2)
> >      |- Category 1 etc...
> >
> > However I would like the Home page to be domain.org and not a redirect
> > to domain.org/home/ , which would be the normal way to achieve this?
> 
> handling of Shortcuts has been changed with TYPO3 4.6.
> Instead of showing the content of the directed page under the current URL
> you are really redirected to that page (and generated links show directly to
> the directed page) this was done to get better results with seachengines. it
> avoids 'duplicate content'.
> 
> with this change the reccomandation about domain-root shortcutting to
> home is void.
> you have to do it the other way around, with the discomfort of very special
> Typoscript configuration in the tree root which normaly will be inherited into
> the tree.
> 
> Solutions:
> - include different typoscript for following levels
> - have conditions with root-page-uid
> - build a FE-layout depending on layout-value of page (FE-layout or
> BE-layout)
> 
> having this in mind from the beginning it is not much discomfort.
> changing a running page after an update to 4.6 can be very inconvenience.
> 
> solutions outside of TYPO3:
> - you may define some 'magic' in .htaccess with some rewrites wich
> exchange http://my.domain.tld with http://my.domain.tld/home [¹]
> - ignore it, as anyway no visitor cares about the exact wording in URLs
> (Bookmarking or link-forwarding is done mostly with copy&paste)
> 
> [¹] = I don't know wether this is possible without catching yourself in
endless
> redirecting loops
> 
> bernd

For ease of administration I've opted to shortcut Home to the root page
and using the following to do use a different HTML template on the home page.

# Home Page Only
[globalVar = TSFE:id = 1]
page.20 {
  template.file = fileadmin/domain.org/home.tmpl
}
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