How to include Hubzilla Site homepage to show visitors?

Emanuel

Basel, Schweiz, Thu, 15 Aug 2019 19:36:15 +0200 last edited: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 20:23:37 +0200

In the #Hubzilla admin UI, one can configure the site homepage which one wants to show to visitors (default: login box), where I read as examples:

example: 'pubstream' to show public stream, 'page/sys/home' to show a system webpage called 'home' or 'include:home.html' to include a file.

The two first examples worked for me. I just tried the last example for the first time, without any success. The location of the home.html file which I would like to include is the same as the location of the hub root (In my case "/var/www/html"). What am I doing wrong?

Edit: In order to find the problem, I tried again the first two examples, because the last time I tried them was long time ago. Unfortunately, they don't work neither now. Which means that the old set configuration is not overwritten when changing the setting over the UI. Is this maybe related to an update?

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Mike Macgirvin

Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:56:43 +0200

This all works fine for me on the current dev branch and as far as I know the relevant code hasn't been touched in a long time. Sorry I couldn't be more help but I can't see anything wrong at the moment. The question is why you're not seeing the same.

Emanuel

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:32:58 +0200 last edited: Fri, 16 Aug 2019 17:33:34 +0200

I wanted to be sure and checked in phpmyadmin: Any changing (for example pubstream or include:home.html) of the configuration is saved properly in the database.
The changement just has no effect on the landing page for visitors: When accessing the base url of the server as a not logged in person, it always shows page/info/home, which was my configuration for the last several months. I'm wondering if there is another location where this setting could be stored and which overwrites the setting which is in the database? Or maybe it has to do with browser history and cache? I deleted all history and cache, without any effect. Or is there a lagging mechanism in the software for applying this setting?

Mike Macgirvin

Fri, 16 Aug 2019 23:48:31 +0200

Before this setting was consolidated on the admin page there were a number of conflicting ways to set the landing page, and that's why they were consolidated. There still exists a 'startpage' addon because I didn't want to break any sites that were already using it. My best guess at the moment is that you may have installed this addon and used it at some point and it is now over-riding the admin setting. If that's the case

util/addons uninstall startpage

might clear it up.

Emanuel

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:01:35 +0200

@Mike Macgirvin Thanks for pointing to that addon. It is not installed on my hub. See
https://labonneheure.ch/siteinfo.json

Is there another way to debug or to find the problem on my hub? Thanks in advance.

Emanuel

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:08:40 +0200

@Mike Macgirvin I found the problem. It was indeed a conflict with an addon. I had the addon customhome installed. By uninstalling it, the problem was gone. Thanks again for your help

Emanuel

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:16:51 +0200

The include:home.html is always adding a navbar? It isn't possible to include a page without it, like a comanche zen template?

Mike Macgirvin

Sat, 17 Aug 2019 22:52:03 +0200

It's possible but would require a code change.

The relevant code is in

Zotlabs/Module/Home.php

Maybe add an option to the effect of 'replace:home.html' or 'load:home.html' which will print|echo the file to stdout and exit.

I had the addon customhome installed.

Yet another conflicting way to set the homepage. I tried to remove the need for all these addons but I think the problem is that I didn't actually remove the addons afterward. It might be worth revisiting this decision.

Emanuel

Mon, 26 Aug 2019 09:12:44 +0200

@Mario Vavti
As a developper, could you please check if it's best to remove the addons customhome and startpage from the code, in order to get rid of the set up conflicts of the start page (see Mikes comment above)? Thank you

And what do you think about adding an option to the Zotlabs/Module/Home.php in order to be able to load:home.html (to load a homepage without the navbar, see discussion above)? That would be great.