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madjack99
madjack99

Reputation: 113

how to redirect from HomePage(Page) to your custom app model

I've created an app "Blog". In my app I've got several models including "BlogIndex(Page)". When I run local server I find myself at "home_page.html". What I want is to start my local server at "blog_index.html". I know that I can set a root page at settings>site>localhost to make my "blog_index.html" a root page, but I can't do this because in my app I've got some other models that live at the same level as "BlogIndex(Page)" and they are children of the root which is "HomePage" so it would brake my code. So my question is: can I make a redirect from "HomePage(Page)" to my "BlogIndex" so that when i start my server I would be automatically redirected from "HomePage" to "BlogIndex"? How can I do it? How much it will affect the performance of the site and it's optimization?

I know that there is settings>redirect but it works only for inactive pages, but i need "HomePage" to be active. Thank you.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2262

Answers (1)

sooz
sooz

Reputation: 96

Perhaps a better approach would be to display your blog posts (and any other models you want) on your homepage. Just override get_context(). See here: Wagtail Views: extra context

Update: You can redirect by overriding the serve() method. For example, in your model, you would do something like:

# home/models.py
...
from django.http import HttpResponseRedirect
from django.urls import reverse

class HomePage(Page):
    body = RichTextField(blank=True)

    content_panels = Page.content_panels + [
        FieldPanel('body', classname="full"),
    ]

    def serve(self, request):
        # Redirect to blog index page
        return HttpResponseRedirect('/blog/')

        # only do this if you're using urls.py and namespaces
        # return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse('blog:index'))

More info: http://docs.wagtail.io/en/latest/reference/pages/model_recipes.html?highlight=serve()#overriding-the-serve-method

Upvotes: 7

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