[opencms-dev] How do I get the first layout area into default index.html after creating new website?

[Jochen Graf]

Hi Ivan,

Am 20.10.21 um 15:27 schrieb Ivan Drinks Sr:
>
> OpenCMS is an excellent software application, but simple things make 
> it SO HARD to get started with.  One thing that continues to puzzle me 
> about OpenCMS is that when you create a new website using the 
> Launchpad it creates a default index.html.  Great except you cannot do 
> anything with it because it requires you to first move a Layout Area 
> to it.  But you cannot do that because you cannot select a Layout Area 
> and nowhere in the documentation tells you how to get around this 
> problem.  So you delete the website and recreate it using the demo 
> site as a template.  Then you have to delete everything in the demo 
> site you don’t need hoping you do not screw something up.  Can anyone 
> on this mailing list provide a simple answer to how the initial Layout 
> Area can be added to the default index.html created when creating a 
> new website using the tools in the Workspace without ssh into the 
> server?  It would be greatly appreciate!!
>
In your newly created site, open the site configuration file 
"/.content/.config".

In the "Content elements" tab, add the Mercury "Master configuration": 
/system/modules/alkacon.mercury.template/configuration/mercury.master.xml

This makes all Mercury contents available for your new site and you can 
start adding layout areas.

> As a side note, why not just create the initial Layout Area in the 
> default index.html when creating a new website?
>
When creating pages for a new website, it is even more convenient to 
have the layout areas available in "template models". See [1] for more 
information. In this way, you do not need to start on the layout area 
level for each new index.html.

Best

Jochen

[1] 
https://documentation.opencms.org/opencms-documentation/creating-a-website/creating-template-models/index.html

> Thank you so much
>
> Ivan
>
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