Magento 2 - empty URL Key for home page

Question

Our site home page URL is https://example.com

But the corresponding CMS Page in Magento 2.4.4 has home as the URL Key.

As a result, the home page can also be browsed at https://example.com/home

We do not want to allow it.

Things we tried:

1. Set the URL Key to empty
   • Result: This identifier is reserved for "CMS Home Page" in configuration.
2. Set the URL Key to /
   • Result: This identifier is reserved for "CMS Home Page" in configuration.
3. Set a URL Rewrite, from home to /
   • Result: Request Path for Specified Store already exists.

So what? Are we condemned to have the home page also browsable from an arbitrary URL?

• bjornredemption: im curious as to why this is an issue? your homepage is likely also browsable by the similarly arbitary example.com/index.php
• J Bruni: @bjornredemption - I checked /index.php and it is not browsable; it results in 404 page. We use ScandiPWA theme, and it renders /home completely broken. We can't spend time/money fixing the broken rendering. If only we can redirect or just remove /home, our problem is resolved.

Answer 1

A couple of custom Fastly VCL snippets is what worked for us. (The store is hosted at Adobe's Magento Cloud.)

This configuration can be found at:

• Magento admin > Stores > Configuration > Advanced > System > Full Page Cache > Fastly Configuration > Custom VCL Snippets

The "Redirects" documentation from Fastly helped on creating the specific necessary VCL snippets.

recv

if (req.url.path == "/home") {
 error 618 "redirect";
}

error

if (obj.status == 618 && obj.response == "redirect") {
 set obj.status = 301;
 set obj.http.Location = "https://" + req.http.host + "/";
 return (deliver);
}

See the solution at https://fiddle.fastly.dev/fiddle/74577b5a

Here are the screenshots from Magento admin:

recv snippet

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error snippet

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IMHO, this is insane. At least, our problem is resolved.

Answer 2

Set a redirect for the "/home" URL: set up a redirect for the "/home" URL to redirect users to the actual home page at "/". To do this, you can create a URL Rewrite in Magento 2.4.4.

In the Magento Admin, go to Marketing > SEO & Search > URL Rewrites, and create a new rewrite.

Set the Request Path to "/home", the Target Path to "/", and the Redirect Type to "Permanent (301)". Save the rewrite and test to see if it redirects users from "/home" to the actual home page.

Let know if you have any query.

Thanks

• J Bruni: This does not work. As described in the question, this has been attempted, and results in error Request Path for Specified Store already exists.

Answer 3

It seems you want to prevent the home page from being accessible via https://example.com/home, while still keeping it accessible at https://example.com. To achieve this, you can set up a URL redirect using the URL Rewrite Management in Magento 2.

Here's how to create a custom URL Rewrite to redirect https://example.com/home to https://example.com:

1. Log in to your Magento 2 Admin Panel.

2. Navigate to Marketing > SEO & Search > URL Rewrites.

3. Click on the "Add URL Rewrite" button.

4. Select "Custom" from the "Create URL Rewrite" dropdown menu.

5. Fill out the form with the following information:

• Store: Choose the appropriate store view.
• Request Path: home
• Target Path: /
• Redirect Type: Permanent (301)
• Description: (optional) Redirect home to root

6. Click on the "Save" button to create the URL rewrite rule.

Now, when someone tries to access https://example.com/home, they will be redirected to https://example.com automatically.

Please note that you might need to clear your Magento cache for the changes to take effect:

php bin/magento cache:clean
php bin/magento cache:flush

With this URL Rewrite in place, you can avoid having your home page accessible from the arbitrary URL, and only have it accessible from the root URL.

• J Bruni: This does not work. As described in the question, this has been attempted, and results in error Request Path for Specified Store already exists.
• Antoine Martin: Are you using Nginx ? If so, you may try the following rule : rewrite ^/home$ https://$http_host permanent;
• J Bruni: We are using Adobe's Magento Cloud. We don't have access to NginX configuration.