How to customize welcome page

[StanFromIreland]

Hello!

Over at Python, we self host plausible: https://analytics.python.org/
We also make our analytics public, e.g. docs.python.org, devguide.python.org, python.org etc. However, when someone ends up at https://analytics.python.org/ they are confused, since it seems like login is required (but we have registration disabled). Is there any way we can customise the welcome page to add a list of quick links? Or, even better would be for it to redirect to /sites and show all of the public ones there.

Thanks,
Stan

[apata]

Hey, @StanFromIreland!

I agree that the admin-focused landing page at the root URL is a bit unexpected. It's not configurable at the moment, but it is specific to CE. I don't see why we couldn't make it configurable

analytics/lib/plausible_web/controllers/page_controller.ex

Lines 10 to 14 in bf477e5

	This controller action is only ever triggered in self-hosted Plausible.
	"""
	def index(conn, _params) do
	render(conn, "index.html")
	end

The template that is rendered: index.html.heex.

The workaround would be to use a reverse proxy in front of Plausible CE to rewrite (or redirect) / requests to a self-built index page. If I'm reading things right, you're using varnish-1.1, which should be able to do this.

FWIW, you can get the Plausible CE web server to serve any static files by putting them in the directories ./js, ./css, ./images in /app/lib/plausible-0.0.1/priv/static in the plausible container.

For example, the following config

# compose.override.yml
services:
  plausible:
    volumes:
      - ./hello.html:/app/lib/plausible-0.0.1/priv/static/js/hello.html:ro
      - ./hello.html.gz:/app/lib/plausible-0.0.1/priv/static/js/hello.html.gz:ro

would make hello.html available at $BASE_URL/js/hello.html, with the gzipped variant automatically served to the client if they support it.

This means you will be able to serve a custom single page app at / if you'd like without adding extra resources.