Answers.Body: <p>If you want one of your <em>channel entries</em> to be the homepage, simply include the channel entries' template to your home page <code>index.html</code>:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{# Set the `entry` variable manually #}
  {% set entry = craft.entries.section('news').first() %}
  
  {# Load the channel entry template #}
  {% include "news/_entry" %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>With this setup, your visitors would actually be on your homepage's URL <code>http://www.example.com</code> instead of never really landing there.</p>
  
  <p>You'd possibly even confuse some visitors, if they get redirected to <code>http://www.example.com/news/my-not-so-very-long-news-title</code> straight away and they might search for your proper home page?!</p>
  
  <p>I'm not sure at all, but I can imagine a regularly changing redirect (each time you add a new news post you'd also have a new home URL!) could also by problematic for SEO rankings. Please correct me if I'm wrong with that! </p>
  
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Answers.Text: Using this technique you would want to set a canonical url to the sections entry url so google didn't see duplicate content on your homepage AND the news entry page.
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Answers.Text: Right. Thanks for adding this here, @jnowland!
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Answers.Body: <p><em>EDIT:</em></p>
  
  <p><em>This answer was given when it wasn't yet clear that @shanti wants one of the channel entries to become the home page. The following is only relevant, if you want a channel's index page to be available under <code>http://www.example.com</code>.</em></p>
  
  <p>.</p>
  
  <p>I'd recommend you to add a single section to your configuration as the entry for your channel's index. In this single's settings you select the template you currently use and you have a checkbox to make this single entry your home page!</p>
  
  <p>Another idea would be to use one structure section for all <em>singular content pages</em> (e.g. about, contact, etc.) and all your channel <em>index pages</em> (e.g. projects, news). There are other interesting Q/As here on Stack Exchange on that topic. If you're going that way, have a look at the answers on <a href="https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/q/1467/125">"Add home page to a structure?"</a></p>
  
  <p>If you simply want to redirect the visitors to <code>http://www.example.com/news</code>, there's a <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/templating/redirect" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>{% redirect %}</code></a> tag available for such redirects.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>Another approach if you simply want to use a channel as your homepage (rather than redirecting) is to just make your homepage extend the channel's index template. For example, set your homepage template to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% extends "news/index" %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>...and the News channel will appear on your homepage.</p>
  
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Answers.Body: <p>You can do this with Craft’s <a href="http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/templating/redirect">{% redirect %}</a> tag. Just put this in your /index.html template:</p>
  
  
  
  <pre class="lang-twig prettyprint-override"><code>{% redirect 'news' %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If you want to redirect to the latest entry in your News section, as you mentioned in the comments above, just fetch the entry first:</p>
  
  <pre class="lang-twig prettyprint-override"><code>{% set latestNews = craft.entries.section('news').order('postDate desc').first() %}
  {% redirect latestNews.url %}
  </code></pre>
  
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Body: <p>When users enter <a href="http://www.example.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com</a> I would like to redirect them to the <a href="http://www.example.com/news" rel="nofollow">http://www.example.com/news</a> template. </p>
  
  <p>How could I achieve this?</p>
  
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Comments.Text: Do you mean proper redirecting? Or do you only want that news channel index template to be you home page?
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Comments.Text: I want the news channel to be my homepage. If possible redirect to the latest post in the news page.
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Comments.Text: "I want the news channel to be my homepage" is not that what you get with the `{% redirect %}` tag. No visitor would be on `http://www.example.com`.
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Tags: <routing>
Title: How to set a channel as the homepage
ThreadText: # How to set a channel as the homepage
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-08-15)
  
  When users enter <http://www.example.com> I would like to redirect them to the <http://www.example.com/news> template.
  
  How could I achieve this?
  
  **Tags:** routing
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_1**: Do you mean proper redirecting? Or do you only want that news channel index template to be you home page?  
  > **username_0**: I want the news channel to be my homepage. If possible redirect to the latest post in the news page.  
  > **username_1**: "I want the news channel to be my homepage" is not that what you get with the `{% redirect %}` tag. No visitor would be on `http://www.example.com`.  
  
  ---
  
  ## 4 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_4 on 2014-08-15. Score: 8 | Accepted answer
  
  You can do this with Craft’s [{% redirect %}](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/templating/redirect) tag. Just put this in your /index.html template:
  
  ```twig
  {% redirect 'news' %}
  
  ```
  
  If you want to redirect to the latest entry in your News section, as you mentioned in the comments above, just fetch the entry first:
  
  ```twig
  {% set latestNews = craft.entries.section('news').order('postDate desc').first() %}
  {% redirect latestNews.url %}
  
  ```
  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-15. Score: 4
  
  If you want one of your *channel entries* to be the homepage, simply include the channel entries' template to your home page `index.html`:
  
  ```
  {# Set the `entry` variable manually #}
  {% set entry = craft.entries.section('news').first() %}
  
  {# Load the channel entry template #}
  {% include "news/_entry" %}
  
  ```
  
  With this setup, your visitors would actually be on your homepage's URL `http://www.example.com` instead of never really landing there.
  
  You'd possibly even confuse some visitors, if they get redirected to `http://www.example.com/news/my-not-so-very-long-news-title` straight away and they might search for your proper home page?!
  
  I'm not sure at all, but I can imagine a regularly changing redirect (each time you add a new news post you'd also have a new home URL!) could also by problematic for SEO rankings. Please correct me if I'm wrong with that!
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Using this technique you would want to set a canonical url to the sections entry url so google didn't see duplicate content on your homepage AND the news entry page.  
  > **username_1**: Right. Thanks for adding this here, @username_2!  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-08-15. Score: 3
  
  *EDIT:*
  
  *This answer was given when it wasn't yet clear that @shanti wants one of the channel entries to become the home page. The following is only relevant, if you want a channel's index page to be available under `http://www.example.com`.*
  
  .
  
  I'd recommend you to add a single section to your configuration as the entry for your channel's index. In this single's settings you select the template you currently use and you have a checkbox to make this single entry your home page!
  
  Another idea would be to use one structure section for all *singular content pages* (e.g. about, contact, etc.) and all your channel *index pages* (e.g. projects, news). There are other interesting Q/As here on Stack Exchange on that topic. If you're going that way, have a look at the answers on ["Add home page to a structure?"](https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/q/1467/125)
  
  If you simply want to redirect the visitors to `http://www.example.com/news`, there's a [`{% redirect %}`](http://buildwithcraft.com/docs/templating/redirect) tag available for such redirects.
  
  
  ---
  
  ### Answer by username_3 on 2015-04-15. Score: 2
  
  Another approach if you simply want to use a channel as your homepage (rather than redirecting) is to just make your homepage extend the channel's index template. For example, set your homepage template to:
  
  ```
  {% extends "news/index" %}
  
  ```
  
  ...and the News channel will appear on your homepage.
  
  
  ---
  
  