Multiple index.html files in a project

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Hi All,

I’m building a site and rather than have all the .html files in the root folder I’m using the ‘path’ option in ‘page settings’ to publish pages in folders like this…

website.url/news/news-story1.html
website.url/news/news-story2.html
website.url/news/news-story3.html

I now want to create an index.html page in the /news/ folder with a list of all the news stories, but when I try and create the page and call it “index” Blocs gives the following error…

“Index may not be assigned as a page name via the page settings. If you would like to set a different home page for your site, that can be done via project settings.”

It’s telling me I can’t have two pages called index.html even though they will be published in different folders, so won’t conflict with each other.

Is there any way around this, or do I need to rethink the whole site taxonomy?

Thanks in advance :slight_smile:

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I’m not entirely clear on what you are aiming to achieve. Couldn’t you select the option for clean urls without using the path option, and then create a sitemap page with a list of links inside Blocs?

I think your problem is that the home page will always be called index.html and I guess Blocs doesn’t like this internally. In theory you could always upload a file manually with an FTP app though.

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Perfect! Clean URLs wasn’t selected in the export - all working now.

Thanks @Flashman :+1: