Setting homepage doesn't remove slug

Site URL: https://partners.red.org/impact

We have a page with slug /impact that we set as the homepage but apparently, the page's slug can't be removed resulting in duplicate content:

https://partners.red.org/
https://partners.red.org/impact

And since /impact still exists, I can't set up a redirect in URL Mapping.

How is this supposed to be resolved?

/Chris

Set another page as homepage temporarily, then rename the page slug. At that point the orginal slug wlll cause a 404 error which can be redirected. Then Set the page with the new slug as homepage

I don't believe that solves the problem @derricksrandomviews

I'm having the same realization as @radishlab. Because every Squarespace page requires a slug, including any page set as the site's homepage/index, the result is a duplicate homepage:

One accessible at the conventional (and almost universally preferred 'mydomain.com/' and one accessible at 'mydomain.com/homepageslug' = duplicate pages/content.

I came upon this trying to find a way to get my site's sitemap.xml to not use my homepage's slug in the URL - something I don't want Google to index and list as I (and I expect most) don't use their actual homepage's full URL with slug as their homepage address.

A slug is required but it doesn't have to be the word "home" make it anything you want, but it cannot be left blank, but this does not make a duplicate page, not really, just two "addresses" for the same page. There is a very important distinction there. 

I believe a step was left out though from the March 17, 2021 solution: at the end of the stated process, after the original homepage (now with a new slug) is reset as the homepage, you can revert to its original slug, thus giving your newly created redirect rule a page to redirect. That step allows you to override the "you can't redirect a page that already exists" rule which was essentially the problem.

So it's as if once a URL redirect in Squarespace takes hold, it will stay working. It's just not able to "take hold" — even though Squarespace allows you to add the rule to the URL Mappings list — if the page you're trying to redirect already exists. In other words, "/xyz" can be mapped to "/" as long as when such a rule is added to the URL Mappings list, "/xyz" doesn't exist. But if a page with slug "xyz" is created after the mapping exists (as in this case), the redirect will stay working.

@radishlab I just tried this and didn't work unfortunately. The redirect was working and then after following these steps, my /reviews link just kicked back in again. So annoying.

@derricksrandomviews

Hello, I have a question that I hope you can help me with. 🙂

I am setting my website and it is going to be a website with recipies. I created a home page and I am adding posts under this page.

However every post I create has a slug ''home'' or any other if I rename it. This causes that every post I creat has a slug in its URL.

For example, if my website was www.alexcooking. com every post that I create would have url www.alexcooking. com/home/applepie.

This is just an example.

I do not want this to happen. I would like that my recipies have this url www.alexcooking. com/applepie.

I cant customise url because the ''home'' cant be deleted from sustomised url.

I have already one website using wordpress and links are created automaticaly as the title of the post and that results in something like this www.alexcooking. com/applepie.

Can you help me to understand how to get the same in Squarespace?

2 hours ago, AleksandraM said:

Every post I create has a slug ''home'' or any other if I rename it. This causes that every post I create has a slug in its URL. I do not want this to happen. I would like that my recipes have this url www.alexcooking. com/applepie. I have already one website using wordpress and links are created automatically as the title of the post

@AleksandraM On Squarespace all blog post URLs begin with the blog page URL slug. This behaviour is not something you can change. Of course you can use a different URL slug that matches your content, for example 'recipes' instead of 'home'.