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Alternate "Main" Index page

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Here's something I wondered about. Back in the day of using Microsoft Frontpage, this was easy (tag the page you want as the "main page"), but I don't know how to go about doing it here.

How do you have an interstitial index page? I'm using MT for a few sites, and there's one I want to switch to MT, but it has an "intro page". It's not a huge deal to just put the content I want on the index.html page, and then go on from there. The problem is the blog thinks THAT page is the main page, so when someone clicks "home", they're taken back to the interstitial page, not the page I would prefer be defined as the "home" page (say main.html instead of index.html).

What's the best way to go about doing this?

Reported on Movable Type 4.2

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  • Well, the easy answer is to add /main.html to the BlogURL variable in the header.

    Was curious if there was another way besides messing with the templates.

  • You could change the default page in your web server software so that if no page is specified it servers main.html rather than index.html (in your example).

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