Changing the Default/Front Page Filename

Under normal circumstances, the default/front page is set in KSW when the project is created. Accidentally however, it may happen that the filename of this page needs to be changed later, after project creation (see Changing Filenames of Topics). For instance, your hosting provider may refuse to set the default page on server to the name of your default/front page. While this could be taken care of before you create the KSW project, we still need to make sure we can handle this change.

Note. Like with editing the registry, in this case you also need to proceed with maximum care - project corruption may occur if mistakes are made.

1. Change the filename of the default/front page in your web.

2. Go to your KSW project's location and open project.xml in Notepad.

3. Go to <ProjectConfiguration> -> <Definition> -> <HomePagePath> and change the old filename to the new one.

4. 'Save As' in Notepad, with all defaults but make sure Encoding is UTF-8.

Note. If you used a different text editor, it is important that it can save as 'UTF-8 with BOM' (which Notepad does).

5. Load project in KSW. Check report for 'Excluded items new: 1' and 'Excluded items removed: 1'. Open project, do nothing, save project.

6. Publish.

 

See also Invalid Filenames.