Currently I’m working on this project to create a SharePoint projects portal, but the context doesn’t really matter. The problem is, all of my pages are custom Application Pages, and therefor reside in the _layouts folder. I’d like one of these pages (http://[servername]/%5Bprojectname%5D/_layouts/Pages/Summary/Default.aspx) to be shown whenever a user visits http://[servername]/%5Bprojectname%5D.
After searching SP itself, the designer and Google, I couldn’t seem to find a solution. I thought… let’s try StackOverflow 🙂 Is it possible to let a _layouts page act as a homepage of a SP site?
We cannot set page (http://[servername]/%5Bprojectname%5D/_layouts/Pages/Summary/Default.aspx) to website welcome page because this page not the part of our current site.
You can set a page to web site welcome page that has the part of our current website. To do this you have to go Site Actions->Site Settings-> Welcome Page (under Look and Feel), set your page as welcome page that has the part of our site. For this you have enabled publishing feature on site.