# How to select existing page as "home" page
**URL:** https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-select-existing-page-as-home-page/16406
**Category:** support
**Created:** [January 15, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-select-existing-page-as-home-page/16406 "2019-01-15T18:31:13Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@hcientist](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hcientist)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-select-existing-page-as-home-page/16406/1 "2019-01-15T18:31:14Z")
Hello all, I am using hugo for really only the first/second time. I am wondering if there would be some way I could select an existing page as the “home” page/start page. That is I would like the root URL to go to a page determined by a setting of some sort.
[https://github.com/CAPWIC/capwic.org](https://github.com/CAPWIC/capwic.org) is the source for [https://capwic.org](https://capwic.org) (with big thanks to Timer-Hugo theme). The organization CAPWIC has a conference each year. I’d like to set this year’s conference page (accessible at `/conferences/2019/`) to be the root for now. Some time after the conference (i.e. april 2019) I would change it so that the home page is something else (probably what it is currently)
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### Author:  [@maiki](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/maiki)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-select-existing-page-as-home-page/16406/2 "2019-01-15T18:43:02Z")
I suggest you search the forums, we actually answered [a version of this question recently](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/i-want-to-redirect-my-homepage-to-a-content-page/16318?u=maiki).
The [homepage template](https://gohugo.io/templates/homepage/) is what you want to modify. You can change it directly, or have it load another content piece. 🙂
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### Author:  [@hcientist](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/hcientist)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2019, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/how-to-select-existing-page-as-home-page/16406/3 "2019-01-15T18:51:27Z")
sorry i didn’t find it without your link. OP called it “redirect” i’ve thought of it as “setting” or “changing” the “home”/“start”/“front” page, so i’m afraid it’s also an ignorance in taxonomy… with anyluck your pointer will help others who think with the terms I’ve used to find the other post.
THANKS!