How to generate a dynamic index page when using Next export (for static s3 hosting)

[wayne-lincoln]

Hey there,

Just had a question regarding how to instruct Next to dynamically generate the root index.html page so we can host in an S3 bucket.

We have a [[...slug]].tsx file that handles all of the static path generation, as well as fetching the static props for our website pages, but I'm having an issue with configuring our home page in the CMS to be generated as the root index.html page.

Our home page has a slug of home in the headless CMS, so at first I tried passing [] to the slug param in getStaticPaths when it encounters the page with the home slug, which seems to build fine but then when running next export I'd get the error:

[Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, copyfile '/Users/waynelincoln/website/.next/server/pages/index.html' -> '/Users/waynelincoln/website/out/index.html'] {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'copyfile',
  path: '/Users/waynelincoln/website/.next/server/pages/index.html',
  dest: '/Users/waynelincoln/website/out/index.html'
}

Is there something simple I'm missing from a config standpoint, or something else I'm missing?

Thanks!

[wayne-lincoln]

Actually to clarify on which seems to build fine - the build succeeds but doesn't generate the index.html file in the /Users/waynelincoln/website/.next/server/pages/index.html which is why I'm getting the error, but how do I tell Next to make the home page the index file?