Hst linkrewriting should rewrite pages to the homepage as / instead of for example /home

Discussion started here: http://hippo.2275632.n2.nabble.com/HST-home-page-URL-why-home-and-not-td6984890.html

Mickaël ----------------------

That would make more sense to me to use '/', for a few reasons:

• nicer / more common URLs
• for multilingual websites, no need to translate '/home' into '/accueil' (FR) or '/start' (DE)
• duplicate content for search engines: same content is served by two URLs, '/' and '/home'

Ard ----------------------

I think this might be a good improvement. Most likely, the historical reason was that we cannot create a jcr node name called /
However, a year later, when I faced the same problem for hst:mounts we introduced the hst:root that would work as '/'
We could create a 'hst:root' named sitemap item that functions as /
I like the improvement, because then at least we can also remove the hst:homepage that you currently have to set on hst:virtualhosts or hst:mounts. Also linkrewriting to a sitemap item that is called hst:root would just result in /