How to make a single blog the home page

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patrick24601 Posted: Sun, Jan 7 2007 10:11 PM

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I'd like to configure CS so when a user visits my site the first thing they see is my blog (the sponsor). But I could not find in the docs as to how to do that.

Is it is possible?

Thanks,

Patrick

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samuel337 replied on Mon, Jan 8 2007 2:15 AM

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Download and try this:

http://qgyen.net/archive/2006/02/01/1357.aspx

Sam

 

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patrick24601 replied on Sun, Jan 14 2007 12:12 PM

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This did not work as expected as actually caused my site to start having errors. Site name is 'stopdoingnothing.com'. If you go look under blogs you will see that there is one blog there that I want to make the default page whenever anybody goes to the base domain name. I'd even be OK if the visitors just go to the blog section because there is only one blog there. After I made the mods you could not read an individual blog post, and there were some other errors showing on the site. I backed it out for now.

in communityserver.config I added:

                <add
    name = "SiteUrlsDataProvider"
    type = "Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping.SiteUrlsData, Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping"
    path = "SiteUrls.config"
   />

                <add
                    name = "UrlReWriteProvider"
                    type = "Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping.UrlReWriter, Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping"
   />

and in the siteurls.config I added:

    <extendedMappings>
    
       
        <add path="/" newPath="/blogs" />

    </extendedMappings>

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samuel337 replied on Mon, Jan 15 2007 12:32 AM

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Did you comment out or remove this in communityserver.config?

                <add
                    name = "SiteUrlsDataProvider"
                    type = "CommunityServer.Components.SiteUrlsData, CommunityServer.Components"
                    path = "SiteUrls.config"
                />

Apart from that it looks ok from here.

Sam 

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patrick24601 replied on Tue, Jan 16 2007 2:18 AM

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Yes I did. Followed the directions to a T.

I might do a local install and try it there again. 

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samuel337 replied on Wed, Jan 17 2007 1:40 AM

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Can you give some pointers as to what the errors were?

The exceptions report in the Admistration part of the control panel might be helpful here.

Sam
 

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samuel337 replied on Wed, Jan 17 2007 1:58 AM

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Well what indications were there that there was an error?

Sam
 

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Rick Reszler replied on Thu, Jan 25 2007 10:18 AM

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patrick24601:

This did not work as expected as actually caused my site to start having errors. Site name is 'stopdoingnothing.com'. If you go look under blogs you will see that there is one blog there that I want to make the default page whenever anybody goes to the base domain name. I'd even be OK if the visitors just go to the blog section because there is only one blog there. After I made the mods you could not read an individual blog post, and there were some other errors showing on the site. I backed it out for now.

in communityserver.config I added:

                <add
    name = "SiteUrlsDataProvider"
    type = "Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping.SiteUrlsData, Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping"
    path = "SiteUrls.config"
   />

                <add
                    name = "UrlReWriteProvider"
                    type = "Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping.UrlReWriter, Qgyen.ExtendedUrlMapping"
   />

 

and in the siteurls.config I added:

    <extendedMappings>
    
       
        <add path="/" newPath="/blogs" />

    </extendedMappings>

 

 

 

 

If you intend to have an actual blog as the home page then you have to add the path to the blog and not the blogs aggregate page like this:

<extendedMappings>
    
       
        <add path="/" newPath="/blogs/myblog" />

    </extendedMappings> 

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n.reed replied on Thu, Feb 8 2007 7:44 AM

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Hi, if I understand correctly, I think Patrick is wanting to do the same thing I do (http://communityserver.org/forums/566894/ShowThread.aspx#566894).

Wizard, if you could post a step-by-step on how to achieve this that would be great.

I really thought this would be a quick configuration or update of a menu link and I would be done. So far I've spent hours trying to get this to work. Surely it must be possible to do this by just changing a link somewhere? Do I have to install third party add-ons and extenders just to change where the menu links to?

Any help greatl appreciated.

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Rick Reszler replied on Thu, Feb 8 2007 7:43 PM

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As promised! Single Blog Only - Community Server 2.1  

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dimension0 replied on Sun, Feb 11 2007 12:18 AM

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• Comment out the blog entry under Navigation to hide the blog tab:
  
  <!--<link name="blog" resourceUrl="webloghome" resourceName="weblogs" roles="Everyone" applicationType = "Weblog" />-->
   
• Under the ROOT section change the "home" entry to "/blog/default.aspx" if you want your blogS page to show as your home page, or change to "/blogs/<your_blog_name>/default.aspx"  if you want a single blog to show under the home tab:
  
  <!--- ROOTS -->
  <url name="home" location="common" path="blogs/default.aspx" />
  
      or
  
  <!--- ROOTS -->
  <url name="home" location="common" path="blogs/<your_blog_name>/default.aspx" />
  
  
• Adding the following code to the end of the  Page_Load function of Default.aspx in the root folder: 
  
  

  NameValueCollection nvc = SiteUrls.Instance( ).UrlData.Paths;
  String val = nvc.Get( "Home" );
  Response.Redirect( val );