How to set Panel to homepage when setting the panel's path as homepage on Configuration > Site Information doesn't work? I have created a panel for my home page and set its path to /home. I have changed the directory of the front page in Admin > Configuration > Site Information to mysite.com/home. Still, when I visit mysite.com/home, the custom panel saved to path /home doesn't populate.

I've made sure I'm saving correctly (rather than just updating) and have also cleared my cache. 

Any ideas how else I might be able to fix?

Thanks in advance!
I dont know what programes interferring the home page redirect.
However, you can try variable_set('site_frontpage', 'front-page-panel-url');

http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/includes--bootstrap.inc/function/variable_set