How to set a channel as the homepage When users enter http://www.example.com I would like to redirect them to the http://www.example.com/news template. 

How could I achieve this?
You can do this with Craft’s {% redirect %} tag. Just put this in your /index.html template:



{% redirect 'news' %}


If you want to redirect to the latest entry in your News section, as you mentioned in the comments above, just fetch the entry first:

{% set latestNews = craft.entries.section('news').order('postDate desc').first() %}
{% redirect latestNews.url %}