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Top level domain - display first album

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    meytal1 Reply #1, 14 years, 10 months ago
    Hi,

    Say I have someone coming into my site, using the top level domain.
    e.g www.mydomain.com
    Since I am not sending any album, how can i show them the first album on the list?

    10x
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      bobwal Reply #2, 14 years, 9 months ago
      Hi again meytal1 smiley I need to do this too! I hope you don't mind me posting in this thread. I figured it would be necessary to redirect the index page to the relevant gallery url eg. www.mydomain.com/folios/home/

      The problem I have with this is I need the index page to use a different template to my folio pages. But redirecting to the folio url calls the resource that uses the folio template.
      My gallerys (using .htaccess)

/folios/home/		
/folios/gallery1/	
/folios/gallery2/	


File tree
---------------------------------
index (1)	(home.tpl)
Folios (2)	(folio.tpl)

      I've looked at using weblinks for redirect and played around with freeze URI but no joy yet. I'm also wondering if using a context could solve this?

      It's a bit tricky to explain so I hope someone can follow this and offer some advice.
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        Mark Hamstra Reply #3, 14 years, 9 months ago
        @meytal1: Can't you just set &album=`1` in the snippet call? I think that's overriden by an url request

        @bobwal What exactly is the problem you're facing? I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve and how that's not working out for you.
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          bobwal Reply #4, 14 years, 9 months ago
          Quote from: markh at Dec 21, 2011, 08:13 AM
          @bobwal What exactly is the problem you're facing?
          Trying to find the most complicated solution to a simple problem laugh


          Oops of course, setting &album=`` does the job. I sometimes get so caught up in the complex stuff I end up missing the simple things, that's my excuse anyway.

          Thanks for the pointer Mark.
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            Gros bonnet de la COGIP Reply #5, 14 years, 9 months ago
            Hi

            I guess the question of meytal1 was displaying the first album (the order of appearance in Manager). The id is not necessarily "1".
            I'm facing the same problem and i don't know how to solve it.