octobercms - where is the root page for my website coming from?

Question

I checked out the source code for a website that my company runs with OctoberCMS via Git and got a DB dump and I'm not able to get my local copy of the website looking like the prod copy does.

In the myproject/themes/mytheme/pages directory there are three files:

• home-page.htm
• page1.htm
• page2.htm

home-page.htm has the following:

title = "my_home"
url = "/home"
layout = "default"
is_hidden = 0
==
blah blah blah

On my local install /home returns the same content that / does on prod. Here's what / and /home do on both prod and local:

Local:

• /home works
• / returns an error 404

Prod:

• / works (returns the same content as /home on local)
• /home returns an error 404

Why is prod behaving differently than local? The fact that home-page.htm has url = "/home" makes me think that local is behaving correctly. So why is prod behaving the way it is then? Where should I be looking to figure this out?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65853478/where-is-the-root-page-for-my-website-coming-from

Answer 1

Turns out the production server was running https://octobercms.com/plugin/axmit-storage (which stores CMS content in the DB instead of the local FS) whereas the local server wasn't.