# How to make a landing page for a multilingual site

**URL:** <https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-make-a-landing-page-for-a-multilingual-site/14179>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [September 12, 2018, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-make-a-landing-page-for-a-multilingual-site/14179 "2018-09-12T10:08:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tomin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/tomin/32/6890_2.png) [@Tomin](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/Tomin)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2018, 10:08am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-make-a-landing-page-for-a-multilingual-site/14179/1 "2018-09-12T10:08:17Z")

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I’m trying to make a multilingual site that has a landing page with language selection. Currently I’ve set up multilingual site so that each language, including default language, is in its own subdirectory. Hugo creates a redirect page to public/index.html but I want to override that. Is there a way to make Hugo generate (or copy) a regular HTML page there?

So far I’ve tried to use content/index.html with frontmatter that says its url is “/index.html”, that didn’t work. Moving that file to content/fi/landing.html didn’t help (the file was used only after I changed url in frontmatter to something else but then the location was obviously wrong). I also tried to use static file index.html which also didn’t work. In all cases public/index.html contains redirect page /fi/index.html (fi being the default language) and not the content that I would like to see. I have no idea what to try next or if Hugo even supports what I want to do.

I didn’t see anything related to this in documentation or on this support forum. I did find [a Github issue related to this](https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/issues/4703), but it didn’t have any answers.

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**Author:** ![fragmentedfolly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@fragmentedfolly](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/fragmentedfolly)\
**Post date:** [September 5, 2020, 5:25pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-make-a-landing-page-for-a-multilingual-site/14179/2 "2020-09-05T17:25:14Z")

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I don’t have a definite answer for this, but let’s say you want 2 languages, EN and JP, setup a third language RU and set that as the default. Set the RU homepage as your language selection page, which link to /en/ or /jp/ and keep the /ru/ folder empty besides the language selection page (`index.md`).

This is called a bad hack.

Edit: Sorry I’m replying to old messages. I’ll stop.

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**Author:** ![pointyfar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/pointyfar/32/5797_2.png) [@pointyfar](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/pointyfar)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2020, 12:58am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-make-a-landing-page-for-a-multilingual-site/14179/3 "2020-09-06T00:58:39Z")

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