home page url/rookie question

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   Been through the forums and this seems like such a rookie question, but I can't get this to work...just want a static, temp html page to be the home page when we enter the url. However, it keeps defaulting to the storefront (with the cats, featured prods, etc).

I've been to Settings>General and changed the url in "Store Home Page" section and hit update...no change. I've checked the url and when entered manually, it works...

Any help/input/comments would be greatly appreciated...thanks in advance!

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tfust Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Newbie Joined: 02-September-2011 Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote tfust Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: home page url/rookie question Posted: 02-September-2011 at 10:07am
	Been through the forums and this seems like such a rookie question, but I can't get this to work...just want a static, temp html page to be the home page when we enter the url. However, it keeps defaulting to the storefront (with the cats, featured prods, etc). I've been to Settings>General and changed the url in "Store Home Page" section and hit update...no change. I've checked the url and when entered manually, it works... Any help/input/comments would be greatly appreciated...thanks in advance!

intour Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Senior Member Joined: 30-June-2006 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 0	Post Options Post Reply Quote intour Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09-September-2011 at 6:21am
	Hi and welcome to the forum. If you've set up a static home page and uploaded it to the root of your server as index.html, default.html etc the it should appear when you type in the www.yourdomain.com Setting the homepage to the url of just your domain name should make it default to the static home page. If you are using the default header and footer files that come with productcart have a hardcoded link to the home page. Nigel Edited by intour - 09-September-2011 at 6:22am
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Greg Dinger Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Certified ProductCart Developers Joined: 23-September-2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 238	Post Options Post Reply Quote Greg Dinger Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 09-September-2011 at 6:32am
	Just to expand on Nigel's thoughts: Check your server (perhaps you have a hosting control panel) for the default document settings. - There will likely be some place where you can set the order of priority for pages which can be selected as the default page for the site. - then there is the page in the root of your site that you wish to be your home page. - if those conflict with each other (in terms of priority) that could be biting you. For example, default.asp may be a redirect to /store/pc/home.asp. If default.asp is prioritized over default.htm, then default.asp will always get recognized first by the server, thus ignoring default.htm. Also, in the store - go check general settings - and set the home page path to your preferred home page.