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How to use folderish items as your homepage
Pupeno offers a great rundown of the various methods for making a folderish content item the default page for a site (or a folder)
Pupeno has written a nice article titled "COREBlog2 as homepage on Plone", but it's really a general purpose guide to the ins and outs of making folderish content items work as default pages.
Pupeno covers redirects, rewrites (with virtual host monster and Apache), renaming to index_html, and his preferred solution, setting "blog" as a default object.
For what it's worth, I use a VHM rewrite here at ThePloneBlog, and find that it mostly works quite well. Pupeno says, "I couldn't make it work, so that's all I have to say." Hmm... all I did was put in an entry in the VHM for my instance that maps "*.theploneblog.org" to "/ploneblog/blog".
PS If you're a manager of planet.plone.org, you should http://pupeno.com/blog/RSS to the list of feeds it aggregates.
Thanks, JonB!
Any content type can be used as the default page in a folder
As I wrote on the site (but CoreBlog seems to have swallowed my comments):
It just needs to define itself as capable of being the default page in a folder. I believe the RichDocument Tutorial shows how to do it.
If CoreBlog's author updates his product to do this (should be a simple case of adding one property), this should be unnecessary. :)
VHM clarification