Item1940: It is not possible to change the starting page of view script from Main.Webhome to Home.WebHome with WIKIHOMEURL

It is not possible to change the default starting web and topic. What I mean is that when I type http://myfoswiki.org/cgi-bin/foswiki/view I always end up in Main.WebHome but I would like to go somewhere else like on foswiki.org it goes to Home.WebHome.

I looked at the code in Foswiki.pm in sub new() changing

    $this->{webName} = $this->{requestedWebName}
      || $Foswiki::cfg{UsersWebName};

to

    $this->{webName} = $this->{requestedWebName}
      || "Home";

Does the trick, but I do not know what would be the side effects.

Variable WIKIHOMEURL should probably do the trick, but it does not.

Check IRC log 2009-08-18 for details.

Workaround: In my case I use RedirectPlugin and redirect from Main.WebHome to Home.WebHome

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You can use DirectoryIndex /Home/WebHome or RedirectMatch ^/+$ /Home/WebHome (or RedirectMatch ^/+bin/+view/*$ /Home/WebHome, if you don't use short URLs). I mean, you can solve this issue using web server rules. Please open the task again if it's not enough and please elaborate more on the problem

-- GilmarSantosJr - 18 Aug 2009

I have changed the state to "confirmed", because the is a problem here: WIKIHOMEURL does not work. So either WIKIHOMEURL should be removed from the documentation, or else it should be made to work.

-- MichaelTempest - 18 Aug 2009

must admit, I thought this was a feature that had not yet been implemented. and as I needed something more, I worte HomePagePlugin.

-- SvenDowideit - 27 Aug 2009

WIKIHOMEURL is used to display the link back to the wiki homepage. (Doesn't work with short URL's enabled). It is not a setting used to alter the default homepage. However this request is implemented by the HomePagePlugin, so setting task to No Action.

-- GeorgeClark - 15 Mar 2011