Redirect if homepage

Question

Im trying to make the Homepage invisible since im doing an integration between 2 sites and the non Magento site handles the Homepage already. So far I achieved this temporally with a JS redirect but this is a bad idea.

Is there any way to do a 301 redirect from the Homepage to another URL? For the record, the destination URL it's outside Magento.

Answer 1

You can have it easier than a rewrite! Just set the homepage to a url you want.

System > Config > General > Web > Default Pages > Default Web Url

There you can fill in whatever you want, e.g.

• a category: catalog/category/view/id/7
• or a product page: catalog/product/view/id/7
• or a cms page

This is only an internal redirect and the customer doesn't see that it is a category (that can be a downside)

Answer 2

Magento provides URL rewriting, including 301 redirects.

Rewrites can be found in the admin dashboard->Catalog->URL Rewrite Management

Some more info can be found here: http://www.magentocommerce.com/knowledge-base/entry/creating-url-rewrites (even if the tutorial is for Magento Go, it's the same on Community)