Publish issue

Jonas-Guignet

Hi everyone,

I've got an issue when I publish my website on Silex web builder, the publish succeed but when I open it, I've got a Gitlab 404 error. Could you help me to understand what's happen ?
It have been working well until I change the name of the repository on Gitlab.
The link were is the issue : https://sonopterix-copy-2026-03-30-sg-411b34.gitlab.io/
A screenshot of my Silex account :

And one of my gitlab :

Cordially,
Jonas

lexoyo

hey jonas,
could you check that

your first page has no name OR is called "index"?
your build is successful (the logs, there is a link in the publication dialog, or go to your repo then build > jobs)

Jonas-Guignet

Hi Lexoyo,

The first page has the name 'Accueil'.

The build is successful.
"Job succeeded"

Jonas-Guignet

I finally could get it working by changing the first page name to "index".

Thank you Lexoyo !
I'm going to work on the website again.
Jonas

lexoyo

Cool !!
Let us know how it goes, and don't forget the showcase section
https://community.silex.me/t/showcase
A bientot!

chris

Hi Jonas,

Glad you got it working! This is useful feedback - users shouldn't have to guess that the first page needs to be named "index"

We're thinking about how to improve this. A few options:

Silex could automatically use the first page as the homepage regardless of its name
Silex could show a warning if no page is named "index" (something like "Your site has no homepage - rename a page to 'index' or it won't load")
Both: auto-fallback + visible warning

Which of these would have helped you the most? Or do you have another idea?

We'll create a feature request on GitHub based on your input

Jonas-Guignet

Hi Chris,
First option is enough I suppose.

lexoyo

@chris could you please create a github issue, we will try to find someone to do that

chris

GitHub issue created so we can track this properly: https://github.com/silexlabs/Silex/issues/1689

Thanks for the feedback @Jonas-Guignet — option 1 (auto-homepage) is noted in the issue.