Allow Arbitrary Homepage (by Jay Pfaffman)

Customization Theme component
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@pfaffman I tried to use the following setup:

  1. install your theme component
  2. set home_url_override to https://thx.zoethical.org/TransHack_·Xist·nce…
  3. add some Nginx configuration to match the HTML file:
        location = /TransHack_·Xist·nce… {
                default_type text/html;
                alias /srv/www/zoethical.org/thx/home.html;
        }

Calling the file directly works, but calling https://thx.zoethical.org breaks. As I noticed a check on permalinks, I tried to add a permalink for /. But it did not work either. Might this be an issue with cache?

FYI, here is the content of the home.html file:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
        <head>
                <meta charset="UTF-8">
                <title> TransHack ·Xist·nce… </title>
                <link rel="stylesheet" href="/thx.css">
        </head>
        <body class="thx home">
                <header>
                        <h1>THX</h1>
                </header>
                <section id="agora">
                        <h2><a href="https://thx.zoethical.org/c/agora/1">Agora</a></h2>
                        <d-topics-list discourse-url="https://thx.zoethical.org" per-page="5" category="1"></d-topics-list>
                </section>
                <section id="fonderie-de-fiction">
                        <h2><a href="https://thx.zoethical.org/c/fonderie-de-fiction/7">Fonderie de fiction</a></h2>
                        <d-topics-list discourse-url="https://thx.zoethical.org" per-page="5" category="7"></d-topics-list>
                </section>
                <script src="https://thx.zoethical.org/javascripts/embed-topics.js"></script>
        </body>
</html>

Edit: I guess it might be due to the fact the instance requires login (SSO), then there’s a dysfunction in this case. I might be willing to make more tests including opening the instance a bit more. After rendering the site public, I still get " Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private." when hitting the homepage. Any idea why?

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