How do you remove the start page

[fatco...@gmail.com]

I don't want the pages to be renderded by kaliko. I want to handle them with a web app and to load my own splash page at the root

[Fredrik Schultz]

Currently the start page routing is handled by a HTTP module and cannot be skipped completely (but there's a workaround and a pending change).

What's possible to do as a workaround is to let your home controller inherit from PageController and to bypass the inherited action, like:

    public class HomeController : PageController<StartPage> {

        [NonAction]

        public override ActionResult Index(StartPage currentPage) {

            throw new NotImplementedException();

        }

        public ActionResult Index() {

            return Content("Custom action");

        }

    }

However this isn't ideal, and in the major rewrite of the CMS (.NET Core compatibility etc) that is ongoing there have been a configuration option added to completely bypass the start page. This would be a small thing to add to the current version as well and I'm about to make a small beta release pretty soon where this could be included.

[Fredrik Schultz]

I've published a new pre-release at https://www.nuget.org/packages/KalikoCMS.Core/1.2.6-beta1 which include a new configuration option.

By setting ignoreStartPage to true in the siteSettings element in the web.config all requests to the web application root (/) will bypass the CMS routing logic:

<siteSettings ignoreStartPage="true" .. />

If setting the parameter to false or omitting it from the configuration then the CMS will try to route to the defined start page.