the index page

[rickarooni]

How do I set up index.php? I found it in my local folder. Why, when I click the “top” link, do I go to a page that says, "This domain is under construction and will be available soon?" How do I set up a home page and lay it out? CAn I use the same template as the rest of my site? How am I supposed to integrate the index page into my site? In the "bts_docs" help file it refers to "index_default.tpl.php and index_nested.tpl.php" but it doesn't really say where these files are or how to use them.

Rick

[met00]

1) how did you set up the site? Is it under the root, or is it under /catalog ?
2) If it is under the root then you shouldn't be getting that message as that is generally the message most hosting companies put up for new clients
3) if it's under the /catalog directory, then that is the "store's root" That means that you can either have a splash page at the server root, or a simple redirect to the /catalog index.php file.

[rickarooni]

thanks, that will help. I don't remember seeing a choice for where to set the osC up. It's set up in catalog, like you said. I wasn't aware that I could do it anywhere else. I'm reluctant to move it, in case I screw something up.

with regard to the other question in the bts_docs it says:

• index.php has 2 content pages : index_default.tpl.php and index_nested.tpl.php.

• index_default.tpl.php handles the overall center structure of index.php including where the define_mainpage module is displayed, where the default_specials, new_products, and upcoming_products modules are displayed and the overall structure of the html.

• index_nested.tpl.php handles the layout of the category listing pages.

Do you know where these files are? I can't find them.

thanks for your reply,
Rick

[met00]

you never access the BTS files directly from the URI.

So your URI should be www . my-domain-name.com/catalog/index.php

This would tell OscMAX to start in the /catalog/index.php

BTS would then go to wherever you defined your template directory in the admin and pick up the main_page.tpl.php

BTS would then decide what type of index page it was dealing with and call that from the content area for that template if a template file existed there, or the fallback if not.

so a call tree would look like:
/catalog/index.php
/catalog/templates/mytemplate/main_page.tpl.php
/catalog/templates/fallback/content/index_default.tpl.php

If you were to want to make changes to the default front page you would copy
/catalog/templates/fallback/content/index_default.tpl.php
to
/catalog/templates/mytemplate/content/index_default.tpl.php

and make changes in that file. Then the call tree would look like
/catalog/index.php
/catalog/templates/mytemplate/main_page.tpl.php
/catalog/templates/mytemplate/content/index_default.tpl.php

When working on the file, you can turn it on and off by renaming it
/catalog/templates/mytemplate/content/index_default.tpl.php = file on
/catalog/templates/mytemplate/content/off_index_default.tpl.php = file off

Since BTS will ONLY pick up the file when it is named index_default.tpl.php in the /catalog/templates/mytemplates/content area, a simple rename to off_index_default.tpl.php will force BTS to pick up the fallback file in /catalog/templates/fallback/content area.

[rickarooni]

thanks for the help.

Rickarooni