# Clarifying custom home page routing **URL:** \ **Category:** Developer help\ **Created:** [August 23, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613 "2018-08-23T20:26:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![deltoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@deltoid](https://forum.ghost.org/u/deltoid)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2018, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613/1 "2018-08-23T20:26:10Z")
Hi, I just setup a fresh install of the latest version of Ghost with the aim of separating the home page from blog. The Ghost 2.0 post says it’s possible to set “a custom homepage on / with posts published on /blog/”, but regarding the installation, should I be setting the website to / or /blog/? I’ve installed it on / for now, and had a look at the routing documentation, but I didn’t find it too clear, I changed the routes file to include routes: /: home but wasn’t really sure how to follow this up, where do I include the home.hbs file? and if I want to set /blog/ to the standard ghost home, what would I enter? Thanks for any clarity on these issues ---
**Author:** ![tawandabrandon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/919ad9/32.png) [@tawandabrandon](https://forum.ghost.org/u/tawandabrandon)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613/2 "2018-08-24T08:48:18Z")
I think the easiest way you an achieve that without breaking anything lol, would be to have your landing / home page as anykind of HTML theme you want; then just install it in the root directory for your webserver. Then you move over to your NGINX configuration and send all requests for ‘/’ to the static files but then let every other request be sent to Ghost ---
**Author:** ![Kevin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/kevin/32/32_2.png) [@Kevin](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Kevin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 8:53am UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613/3 "2018-08-24T08:53:37Z")
@tawandabrandon that was definitely the case before Ghost 2.0 but is no longer necessary @deltoid you would set up Ghost on `/` then modify your `routes.yaml` to look something like this: ```auto routes: /: home collections: /blog/: permalink: /blog/{slug}/ template: index taxonomies: tag: /blog/tag/{slug}/ author: /blog/author/{slug}/ ``` Then your homepage uses `home.hbs` and lives on `/` and all of your posts, tags, author pages, etc live under `/blog/` ---
**Author:** ![deltoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@deltoid](https://forum.ghost.org/u/deltoid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 5:42pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613/4 "2018-08-24T17:42:02Z")
Thank you for the assistance, but I now get an error: 500 Cannot read property ‘match’ of undefined This appears on / directory, everything seems to be working fine on /blog have I not got the home.hbs in the right directory? I’ve tried moving it around, and looking in the admin panel, but I’m at a loss ---
**Author:** ![Kate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/kate/32/35_2.png) [@Kate](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Kate)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613/5 "2018-08-24T17:56:35Z")
> [@deltoid](#): > > Cannot read property ‘match’ of undefined That sounds like a broken template (incorrect usage/syntax). Did you fix it already? ---
**Author:** ![deltoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@deltoid](https://forum.ghost.org/u/deltoid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613/6 "2018-08-24T18:10:36Z")
nope ☹ is this incorrect syntax in the routes.yaml file? ---
**Author:** ![Kate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/kate/32/35_2.png) [@Kate](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Kate)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 6:15pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613/7 "2018-08-24T18:15:37Z")
Maybe. Can you share your routes.yaml and the full error log from the server? ---
**Author:** ![deltoid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@deltoid](https://forum.ghost.org/u/deltoid)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 6:26pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613/8 "2018-08-24T18:26:45Z")
my routes.yaml file was just copy and pasted from above what’s the best way to share the error.log file? ---
**Author:** ![Kate](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forum.ghost.org/kate/32/35_2.png) [@Kate](https://forum.ghost.org/u/Kate)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613/9 "2018-08-24T18:34:20Z")
I’ve copied it too - the syntax is correct. So looks like it’s your template? > what’s the best way to share the error.log file? Copy the error message with the last 5 lines of the stack in code back sticks. * * * You could also figure this out yourself, by not using the home.hbs template or the index.hbs and then restart Ghost. By that you can identify, which template might be wrong - if it’s the template 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/ghost2/original/2X/b/ba9ce5100b8bb264586f4f572545596b2ce3f081.png) [@system](https://forum.ghost.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 6:34pm UTC](https://forum.ghost.org/t/clarifying-custom-home-page-routing/2613/10 "2018-09-07T18:34:22Z")
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