How to change home page route in Orchard Core

Question

I am trying to use Orchard Core and I need to replace the Home page route to match with the previous settings, alternatively I could move my files but I want to explore the framework and it is a learning experience, from searching I found out that I perhaps need to create a module and then use that to reroute to the current home page, but it is a bit unclear.

Any guidance is much appreciated.

This is from the old code, and the functionality that I am trying to re-creeate.

builder.Services.AddRazorPages(options =>
{
  options.Conventions.AddPageRoute("/Home/Index", "");
});

Answer 1

This may not be quite what you are doing, but I had trouble setting the home page with the Admin site.

What I found was that you have to go into the Configuration/Feature section and enable both the Auto Route and Home Route features. Once you've done that it is possible to go into a Content Type and add an auto route part. Following that you can edit the auto route part's settings to enable Show Homepage Options. Finally when you create a content item of that content type it allows you to select that it should be the home page. Note that it only becomes the home page once published.

Answer 2

You set your landing page URL using an Autoroute part to whatever you want then, in your startup class redirect the root path to that URL, for example:

app.MapGet("/", ctx =>
{
   ctx.Response.Redirect("YOUR URL HERE");

   return Task.CompletedTask;
});