How can I achieve the following using Dynamic URLs / routing?

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1

Rather than my Ghost site’s default view being a list of blog posts, I’ve created a page (stored at mydomain.com/index) that I’d like people who navigate to my base domain to be redirected to.

Similarly, I have a couple other pages that I’d like to store in custom slugs. For example, I have a “mydomain.com/charts” page that I’d like to store under “mydomain.com/data/charts”, and so on.

What would be the best way to accomplish this?

2

I think I would use redirects here. You could redirect from /index to your root path and /charts to /data/charts/.

3

I initially tried adding something like this to my redirects file:

301:
    /: /index
    /chart: /data/charts

However, after configuring, visiting mydomain.com redirected me to mydomain.com/index/index/index/index and kept redirecting. The same thing happened w/ the data/charts.

Is there a different way to tell Ghost - when someone wants to access this page, send them here instead?

4

In your redirect, you need to add some regex (pattern matching) to avoid the duplication.

Try this:

301:
  ^\/$: /index/

Does that work?