Do you want Article Manager's Front Page (the main article index) to be your website's homepage? Easy enough, and with this method you won't even have to change the Publish URL and Publish Dir in the Setup Options.

It's probably best to have the articles and front page always publish to the /artman/publish/ directory (or whatever subdirectory you have your articles publishing to). This makes your web root look tidier. You can always just use a server side include to include the entire Front Page index form your /artman/publish directory into your web root. Simply create an index.shtml page and place the following tag into it. Make sure to not have anything other then this tag:

<!--#include virtual="/artman/publish/index.shtml" -->

When done, make your newly created index.shtml page your web roots index page.

One last thing, you'll want to make sure your web hosting provider is setup to show index.shtml pages by default. Some only show index.html and you need to ask your hosting provider to enable index.shtml (or do it yourself).

Did this "How to" make sense? Send us your feedback, or let us know if you're using either the Dusk or Arctic template set with your installation of Article Manager and we'll link to it as an example.