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My boss is adamant about having ad landing page urls not involve “subdirectories” (er, extra segments in the EE way. To accomplish this I simply have the index of the homepage template group embed a homepage template if there’s no second segment and embed an ad landing page if there is a second segment.

The problem is, the landing page only ever shows the last entry. Require_entry throws it into the no_results loop. However, if I use this exact same method on a non-default template group it works as expected.

Can someone explain what is going on here? Here’s my site’s index page code (main is my default template group):

{if segment_1 == ''}{embed='main/homepage'}{if:else}{embed='main/landingpage'}{/if}

landingpage:

{exp:channel:entries channel="landing" limit="1" status="open"}
     {embed="includes/header" bodyclass="layoutB landingpage"}
    {if no_results}{redirect=''}{/if}
    <div id="main" role="main">
        <h1>{title}</h1>
        {other_stuff}
    </div>
    {embed="includes/footer"}    
{/exp:channel:entries}

To recap, my problem is that given the following “landing” entries (url_titles):
http://www.site.com - shows homepage
http://www.site.com/campaign04 - shows the “landing” channel entry with the url_title of campaing04
http://www.site.com/campaign03 - still shows the “landing” channel entry with the url_title of campaing04
http://www.site.com/foo - shows the “landing” channel entry with the url_title of campaing04

(campaing04 is the latest landing entry that has an open status.)

Note if I use the exact same templates in a non default template group it works as expected:
http://www.site.com/test/ - shows homepage
http://www.site.com/test/campaign04 - shows “landing” channel entry campaing04
http://www.site.com/test/campaign03 - shows “landing” channel entry campaing03
http://www.site.com/test/foo - shows “landing” channel entry foo

Try adding url_title=”{segment_1}”. I expect that the include cannot identify the URL properly as segment_1 is generally for the template group *shrugs*

{exp:channel:entries channel="landing" limit="1" status="open" url_title="{segment_1}"}

ll23,

Along with what Cheif says. Because you have basically rolled your own URL where the url_title is now at segment_1 you have cut of the dynamic URL feature of EE. Which is fine by the way but you need to make allowances now for this and feed through values for certain parameters

{if segment_1 == ''}
{embed='main/homepage'}
{if:else}
{embed='main/landingpage' seg="{segment_1}"}
{/if}

{exp:channel:entries channel="landing" limit="1" status="open" url_title="{embed:seg}"}

Does that help?

Yes, I just needed to add url_title=”{segment_1}”. It wasn’t even necessary to pass an embed parameter. Thanks!

Glad you were able to figure out what the problem was. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.