[Question] Page as homepage, but keep site as blog

[varna9000]

Hi, I'm struggling to find a solution to this. I'm building a blog, but I want my homepage to be one of the pages, not the list of blog posts. If I follow the instructions here I can have a page show as a homepage (index) but I don't know how I can keep the posts on the website as well. If I leave in conflict.py:

POSTS = (
    ("posts/*.rst", "pages", "page.tmpl"),
    ("posts/*.md", "pages", "page.tmpl"),
    ("posts/*.txt", "pages", "page.tmpl"),
    ("posts/*.html", "pages", "page.tmpl"),

)

Then the blog posts are loading as homepage. Can you suggest a solution to this?

[varna9000]

I should read the documentation page to the bottom! The answer is there. Sorry about that!

[varna9000]

Ok I have to reopen this, as building the website keeps routing the blog posts as homepage. I follow the examples exactly as mentioned in the link above but can't make a page be set as homepage.

[Kwpolska]

What is your INDEX_PATH set to in conf.py?

[varna9000]

just as in the example - it's INDEX_PATH = "blog"

Then I have:

POSTS = (
    ("posts/*.rst", "blog", "post.tmpl"),
    ("posts/*.md", "blog", "post.tmpl"),
    ("posts/*.txt", "blog", "post.tmpl"),
    ("posts/*.html", "blog", "post.tmpl"),
)
PAGES = (
    ("pages/*.rst", "pages", "page.tmpl"),
    ("pages/*.md", "pages", "page.tmpl"),
    ("pages/*.txt", "pages", "page.tmpl"),
    ("pages/*.html", "pages", "page.tmpl"),
)

and have created a page with nikola new_page containing :

.. title: index
.. slug: index
.. date: 2021-03-09 17:21:45 UTC+02:00


test page

[Kwpolska]

This setup isn't enough to put an index in the main directory. The index page you're seeing is a stale file (removing the output folder will make it not generate, nikola check -f will warn about it). To put an index.html file in the site root, you need a PAGES entry with "' (empty string) as its destination (second element in PAGES tuples).

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On Tue, 9 Mar 2021, 17:40 varna9000, ***@***.***> wrote: just as in the example - it's INDEX_PATH = "blog" Then I have: POSTS = ( ("posts/*.rst", "blog", "post.tmpl"), ("posts/*.md", "blog", "post.tmpl"), ("posts/*.txt", "blog", "post.tmpl"), ("posts/*.html", "blog", "post.tmpl"), ) PAGES = ( ("pages/*.rst", "pages", "page.tmpl"), ("pages/*.md", "pages", "page.tmpl"), ("pages/*.txt", "pages", "page.tmpl"), ("pages/*.html", "pages", "page.tmpl"), ) and have created a page with nikola new_page containing : .. title: index .. slug: index .. date: 2021-03-09 17:21:45 UTC+02:00 test page — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#3524 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AACP5G3YS74GR6HCKEIIJCDTCZFQ7ANCNFSM4Y3QZPFQ> .

[varna9000]

Thank you! That works exactly as I expect!