fixing index.htm as troggle-managed page

core/views/expo.py

@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ def pubspage(request):
     This is a placeholder, we need to do something like what is done in indexpage() below...
     """
     expowebpath = Path(settings.EXPOWEB)
+    print("--redirecting from pubspage()")
     return expowebpage(request, expowebpath, "pubs.htm")
     
 def indexpage(request):
@@ -146,6 +147,7 @@ def indexpage(request):
     This edits the most recent year on the fly..
     This now works.
      """
+    print("--redirecting from indexpage()")
     subpath = Path(settings.EXPOWEB) / "index00.htm"
     with open(subpath, "r") as o:
         html = o.read()
@@ -155,6 +157,9 @@ def indexpage(request):
    
 def expowebpage(request, expowebpath, path):
     """Adds menus and serves an HTML page"""
+    if path == "" or path == "index.htm":
+        return indexpage(request)
+        
     if not os.path.isfile(expowebpath / path):
         # Should not get here if the path has suffix "_edit"
         print(f" - 404 error in expowebpage() {path}")

urls.py

@@ -92,6 +92,7 @@ else:
 
 trogglepatterns = [
     path('pubs.htm', pubspage,      name="pubspage"), # ~165 hrefs to this url in expoweb files
+    #path('', indexpage,      name="indexpage"), # ~1,212 hrefs to this url in expoweb files
     path('index.htm', indexpage,      name="indexpage"), # ~1,212 hrefs to this url in expoweb files
 
     path('expofiles/', include(expofilesurls)), # intercepted by Apache, if it is running.