From eaab347e8949207f1d2bfae4ba1bb0826268e2b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marcelo Canina <me@marcanuy.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 19:42:13 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] redirects from default language subfolder to homepage

---
 Gemfile      | 1 +
 Gemfile.lock | 5 ++++-
 README.md    | 4 ++++
 _config.yml  | 1 +
 index.html   | 2 ++
 5 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
index 6af252f..8236db2 100644
--- a/Gemfile
+++ b/Gemfile
@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ group :jekyll_plugins do
   gem 'jekyll-sitemap'
   gem 'jekyll-toc'
   gem 'html-proofer'
+  gem 'jekyll-redirect-from'
 end
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index d660142..45f3b3c 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ GEM
       safe_yaml (~> 1.0)
     jekyll-feed (0.9.2)
       jekyll (~> 3.3)
+    jekyll-redirect-from (0.12.1)
+      jekyll (~> 3.3)
     jekyll-sass-converter (1.5.0)
       sass (~> 3.4)
     jekyll-seo-tag (2.2.3)
@@ -82,9 +84,10 @@ DEPENDENCIES
   html-proofer
   jekyll
   jekyll-feed
+  jekyll-redirect-from
   jekyll-seo-tag
   jekyll-sitemap
   jekyll-toc
 
 BUNDLED WITH
-   1.14.6
+   1.15.0
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index adc7148..6d5b08e 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@ Just clone this repo and start building yours.
 			<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de" href="http://example.com/de" />
 			<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="http://example.com/en" />
 
+- Redirects from default language subfolder to site homepage (`/en` -> `/`)
+
 # Design Philosophy
 
 **jekyll-skeleton** has been built with the following principles in
@@ -200,6 +202,8 @@ The following properties in posts front-matter are used:
   files to make sure they're accurate.
 - <https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-feed> A Jekyll plugin to generate
   an Atom (RSS-like) feed of your Jekyll posts
+- <https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-redirect-from> Specify multiple
+  redirections URLs for pages and posts.
 
 If you want to host a site derived from this repo in Github, you can
 follow this guide: [Automated Deployment Of Jekyll Websites To Github Pages With A Git Push To Github ](https://simpleit.rocks/automated-deployment-of-jekyll-websites-to-github-pages-with-a-git-push-to-github/).
diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml
index 3df2bb8..7987f94 100644
--- a/_config.yml
+++ b/_config.yml
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ gems:
   - jekyll-sitemap
   - jekyll-feed
   - jekyll-seo-tag
+  - jekyll-redirect-from
 
 defaults:
   #languages
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index 7191026..bda67e2 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 ---
 title: Homepage example
 layout: home
+redirect_from:
+  - /en/ # the default language subfolder redirects here
 ---
 
 Example home page, Hello World!