Home page - Page locations

[ahukkanen]

Currently it is not possible (as far as I know) to set alternative page locations for the home page. This can be quite confusing in some occasions and definitely a feature that is often needed when updating old websites. After the launch, we might have multiple pages that no longer exist but we want to 301 redirect those to the home page. Currently the fastest way to do this is through manually modifying the .htaccess file.

So, it would be highly convenient if we could do this directly from the UI simply by opening the "page locations" settings for the home page. Is there some reason why this has been disabled for the home page?

Obviously, we cannot change the primary canonical URL for the home page since that would possibly make the site inaccessible. But alternative URLs for the home page should not have any side effects, right?

Some other thoughts on this matter:
https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/5-7-discussion/301-redirect-to-homepage-in-5.7/
#350 (comment)

I'm sure some other people have also bumped into the situation where they end up searching for the missing "Page Location" section from the settings menu. I also once went deeper into the code for like 1 hour just to figure out it was disabled for the home page.

[aembler]

Yeah, I agree – I imagine the reason for the limitation is simply because you can't give the home page a different canonical url and we just wrapped the entire thing in a greedy if statement.