# Have index.md pass child pages up (transparency)

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [March 29, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/have-index-md-pass-child-pages-up-transparency/365 "2020-03-29T22:03:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 10, 2020, 5:38am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/have-index-md-pass-child-pages-up-transparency/365/2 "2020-04-10T05:38:17Z")

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OK so here’s a confusing thing about the [Section docs](https://www.getzola.org/documentation/content/section/) –

```auto
# This determines whether to redirect when a user lands on the section. Defaults to not being set.
# Useful for the same reason as `render` but when you don't want a 404 when
# landing on the root section page.
# Example: redirect_to = "documentation/content/overview"
redirect_to = ""

```

“” is not the default value. “” redirects to your root address endlessly. Which is only slightly less frustrating than redirection to Rick Astley’s 1987 smash hit, “Never Gonna Give You Up”. Docs should definitely be changed to simply `redirect_to = ` or something along those lines that make it clear, redirecting to your root address + a blank string will be a bad time.

I’m also still confused about \_index vs. index but sometimes when a thing starts working you know better than to ask questions. And the [radio](https://zola.discourse.group/t/radio-theme/375) plays on.

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