Use Skin Home Page off not working

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December 12, 2020
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I'm using RH2020.3 and a Frameless Preset on a project that has a structure not suitable for the tiled home page, so I want it to open with the menus on the left at a specific start topic (i.e. no home page). When I uncheck the "Use skin home page", I get exactly what I need when generating the preset and viewing it from the local path. However, when I publish to IIS, it only works if I enter the full path to the file index.htm (e.g. https://domain/site/index.htm). If I point the browser to the site without including the index file (e.g. https://domain/site/) I get

404 - File to directory not found.

In IIS, I have index.htm set as the default page, so I'm certain there's nothing wrong with the web server.

I think there might be a problem with the RH redirect script "./template/scripts/redirect.js" that called from index.htm. It's getting to index.htm the browser is then being redirected to the wrong URL by that script. In the browser, instead of seeing https://domain/site/default-topic.htm, I'm seeing the redirected URL https://domain/default-topic.htm. It's missing the site name in the redirected URL.

Is this a bug?

Does anyone know of a workaround?

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Peter Grainge

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Adobe have been able to replicate this and it will be fixed in the next update. Meantime you will need to use the workaround that you found.

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Peter Grainge

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I have had confirmation that this will be looked into.

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Peter Grainge

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For your case is the test you ran as that seems to prove the point. Against it is that no one else has reported this.

I have referred this to an Adobe contact and will let you know what comes back.

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cadbaseAuthor

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This looks like a bug in RH 2020.3 redirect.js.

If I create a new project in RH2019, add the Orange Frameless skin, generate with a Frameless Preset with all the default settings but the "Use Skin Home" off and publish to IIS, the site starts without error using http://server/site/.

If I repeat this identical test using RH2020.3, the site only starts using http://server/site/index.htm; it shows the 404 error using http://server/site/.

If I copy the file template\scripts\redirect.js from the test website created with RH2019 to the test website created using RH2020, the site works without a problem.

I think this proves there is a problem with template\scripts\redirect.js in RH2020 compared with RH2019.

As I'm about to publish a live site, my workaround is to manually replace the file template\scripts\redirect.js with one from RH2019 each time a publish, but hopefully this can be fixed in a later release?

Graham Keen

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