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Is it possible to rename, or to re-assign the index for a template group? I’m working using external template files which I’m coding with Coda. As it is I’ve got this kinda thing:
home.group/index.html
articles.group/index.html
contact.group/index.html
which works fine. And to keep track of which index.html is which, I’ve just started each with a <!—THIS PAGE—> comment. But the tabs in Coda still all say “index.html” which gets a bit confusing and feels clumsy.

How can I get myself to something more like:
home.group/home-index.html
articles.group/articles-index.html
contact.group/contact-index.html
?

In the EE template manager, it’s not possible to rename the index templates directly (text field is shown but not editable), and I can’t find a way to assign a different index for a template group…

Perhaps I’m doing it all wrong and should have something more like:
pages.group/home.html
pages.group/articles.html
pages.group/contact.html
and use .htaccess to strip the un-necessary “domain.com/pages/page” out of the URL?

Any ideas?

Hi, williamrice. EE requires the index template, you don’t have to use it, or you could just use it to embed the other templates.

If you’d prefer other urls, you can use the Pages module to rewrite your single entry template to something else on the front end.

In other words, you could have a template called pages/contact/url-title and have that become contactus.html on the front end.

For more information on Pages: EEDocs:// Pages

Does that help?