When I did the gradual upgrade I found that several sites had the welcome page set to UpgLandingPgRedir.aspx when it should have been set to default.aspx. I didn’t have time to figure out why it was doing this but the fix was easy enough – I just had to change the welcome page back. To do this I created a new command: gl-sitewelcomepage. The code to set this is really simple – basically just get a PublishingWeb instance and set the DefaultPage property to a valid SPFile object:
1: string url = Params["site"].Value.TrimEnd('/');
2: string page = SPHttpUtility.UrlPathDecode(Params["welcomepage"].Value, true);
3:
4: using (SPSite site = new SPSite(url))
5: using (SPWeb web = site.AllWebs[Utilities.GetServerRelUrlFromFullUrl(url)])
6: {
7: if (!PublishingWeb.IsPublishingWeb(web))
8: throw new SPException("The specified site is not a publishing web.");
9:
10: PublishingWeb pubWeb = PublishingWeb.GetPublishingWeb(web);
11:
12: bool flag = false;
13: SPFile file = null;
14: try
15: {
16: file = pubWeb.Web.GetFile(page);
17: flag = file.Exists;
18: }
19: catch (SPException)
20: {
21: flag = false;
22: }
23: catch (FileNotFoundException)
24: {
25: flag = false;
26: }
27: catch (ArgumentException)
28: {
29: flag = false;
30: }
31:
32: if (!flag || file == null)
33: throw new SPException("The specified welcome page could not be found.");
34:
35:
36: PublishingWeb currentPublishingWeb = pubWeb;
37: currentPublishingWeb.DefaultPage = file;
38: currentPublishingWeb.Update();
39: }
The syntax of the command can be seen below:
C:\>stsadm -help gl-sitewelcomepage
stsadm -o gl-sitewelcomepage
Sets the page to be used as the welcome page for the site.
Parameters:
-site <url of the site to update>
-welcomepage <full url to the page to use as the welcome page>
Here’s an example of how to set the welcome page for a site:
stsadm -o gl-sitewelcomepage -site "http://intranet/sites/teamsite1" -welcomepage "http://intranet/sites/teamsite1/pages/default.aspx"
4 thoughts on “Set the Welcome Page for a Web”
Gary,
How do you set this for a NON publshing site
Thx
For non-publishing sites you have to just make sure that the welcome page is named default.aspx and is in the root folder of the web (not in a doc library (so to change the welcome page you’d have to rename some files).
Sure you can. SPFolder.WelcomePage works in WSS. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.sharepoint.spfolder.welcomepage.aspx
Doh – should have known that – thanks! Learned something new today 🙂