How to change default page of odoo with other webcontroller odoo 9.0

Question

I have created a new webcontroller with specific functionality and I want this webcontroller as a home page of odoo 9.0.

I have tried to put @http.route('/', type='http', auth='public', website=True) in main.py of my custom webcontroller file as a route, but still it redirect to default home page of odoo.

But if I put url as @http.route('/index', type='http', auth='public', website=True), the page is working fine.

So my question is what is best way to replace existing odoo home page with custom controller or module.

Answer 1

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
from openerp import http
from openerp.addons.website.controllers.main import Website

class Website(Website):
    @http.route(auth='public')
    def index(self, data={},**kw):
        super(Website, self).index(**kw)
        return http.request.render('<your_addon>.<your_template_id>', data)