Forum OpenACS Development: Using an xowiki page as a subsite index page

I have a site with a number of subsites, and for some of the subsites I would like to use an xowiki page from within that subsite as the index page. So, for example, a user going to /subsite2 would end up seeing /subsite2/xowikimountpoint/somepage, but /subsite1 and /subsite2/forums would remain unaffected.

I tried creating an index.vuh file in acs-subsite/www, which is a variation of the one Gustaf supplies in his documentation for doing this at the root level. In order to restrict this to only the subsite that needs it, I have this:

::xowiki::Package initialize -ad_doc {

} -parameter {
{-m view}
{-folder_id:integer 0}
} -url /subsite2/xowikimountpoint

if { [string first /subsite [ns_conn url]] == 0 } {
::$package_id reply_to_user [::$package_id invoke -method $m]
ad_script_abort
} else {
ad_returnredirect index1
}

In limited testing this seems to work just fine, though it seems a bit hackish. The thing I don't like about it is having to rename the index file for the unaffected subsites to index1.

Is there a better way to do this?

Yes, actually, this does work. I had tried this in acs-subsite/www and it didn't work there, and I didn't think to try it here. I'm still not 100% clear on how subsites work.

Thanks for the tip!

IndexRedirectURL is a kernel parameter, so it's global to the site. It works fine for the main site, but doesn't affect the subsites at all.

Each subsite also has a IndexInternalRedirectUrl which performs and rp_internalredirect which does not change the URL in the browser for perform an HTTP redirect.