RewriteRule ^/robots.txt$ - [L]
 
 #   RewriteRule ^/$ http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages
-   RewriteRule ^/$                     /index.html [L]
+   RewriteRule ^/$                     /index [L]
    RewriteRule ^/([^/+]*)([+])([^/]*)$ "/$1%%{%}2B$3" [N]
    RewriteRule ^/changelog:(.+)$       /changelogs/${changelog-url:$1} [R,L,NE]
    RewriteRule ^/src:([^/]+)$          /search?searchon=sourcenames&keywords=$1 [R,L,NE]
    RewriteRule ^/file:(.+)$            /search?searchon=contents&keywords=$1 [R,L,NE]
-   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ [OR]
-   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/search$
-   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi-bin/search_(contents|packages)\.pl$
-   RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)$              /search?keywords=$1 [R,L,NE]
-
+   
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} =""
    RewriteCond %TOPDIR%/www%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %TOPDIR%/www%{REQUEST_FILENAME}.en.html -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %TOPDIR%/www%{REQUEST_FILENAME} -l
    RewriteRule . - [L]
 
+   RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} ^$ [OR]
+   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/search$
+   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/cgi-bin/search_(contents|packages)\.pl$
+   RewriteRule ^/([^/]+)$              /search?keywords=$1 [R,L,NE]
+
    RewriteRule ^/(.+)$ /cgi-bin/dispatcher.pl/$1 [L,PT]
 
 #  In case we need to disable the site again
 
        } elsif (@components == 0) {
            fatal_error( "We're supposed to display the homepage here, instead of getting dispatch.pl" );
        } elsif (@components == 1) {
-           $what_to_do = 'search';
+           if ($components[0] eq 'index') {
+               $what_to_do = 'homepage';
+           } else {
+               $what_to_do = 'search';
+           }
        } else {
 
            for ($components[-1]) {
 
 use Packages::CGI;
 
 our @ISA = qw( Exporter );
-our @EXPORT = qw( do_index do_allpackages );
+our @EXPORT = qw( do_homepage do_index do_allpackages );
+
+sub do_homepage {
+    $_[1]->{suite} = [];
+    return send_file( 'index', @_ );
+}
 
 sub do_index {
     return send_file( 'index', @_ );
     my $wwwdir = "$TOPDIR/www";
     my $path = "";
     $path .= "source/" if $opts->{source};
-    $path .= "$opts->{suite}[0]/";
+    $path .= "$opts->{suite}[0]/" if @{$opts->{suite}};
     $path .= "$opts->{archive}[0]/" if @{$opts->{archive}} == 1;
     $path .= "$opts->{subsection}[0]/" if @{$opts->{subsection}};
     $path .= "$opts->{priority}[0]/" if @{$opts->{priority}};