Using Smartblog as a starting page - help with URL please !

[Proze]

Hi, 

 

first of all english is not my native language, so i am having a hard time to come up with a title to describe my problem.

 

I am using Smartblog for adding the blog features to prestashop, since my client wants the blog with his e-shop.

 

Everything is working fine, but he also wants his eshop to have the blog as a starting page.

 

I managed to acomplish this by overriding IndexController.php and adding line:

 

public function init(){

    Tools::redirect('index.php?fc=module&module=smartblog&controller=category');

}

 

It is working, the only problem is that i would like to get rid of this insanely long not-friendly url.

 

So from http://www.myshop.com/index.php?fc=module&module=smartblog&controller=category i would like to have the blog as a starting page but just with url http://www.myshop.com/ or at least http://www.myshop.com/blog

 

Anyway how to do this ? Easy way ? .) I am more like a designer, coder. So php, and server things are big mystery to me mostly.

 

Thanks in advance for answers, or at least pointing me to some resources that would help me to accomplish this.

 

 

[sandipchandela]

Have you used Tools::redirectLink() ??

 

And put entry in admin panel -> preferences -> SEO and urls.