Question

I made a regex route to route any segment to category except 2 values (home or about).
Now the problem I have is that when a user browses to my base url it also routes to category.

I’ve looked around and I can’t find a way to add an exception to my regex so that the homepage routes to index instead of category controller.

This is my code

<archive type="Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Regex">

    <route>(^(?!home$|about$).*$)</route>

    <defaults>
        <controller>category</controller>
        <action>index</action>
    </defaults>

    <reverse>%s</reverse>

</archive>`

if I add index or default to my exceptions it still routes to category

Answer 1

Add a static route that maps empty url to your index controller and action.

<home type="Zend_Controller_Router_Route_Static">

    <route></route>

    <defaults>
        <controller>index</controller>
        <action>index</action>
    </defaults>

</home>