Upload .aspx site templates to sharepoint site

Question

We have recently rolled out our internal sharepoint site for our employees and have our different departments set up in such a way that the manager for that department will be editing their own sharepoint site connected to a sharepoint hub.

In the sharepoint hub I have two site templates in .aspx format that I would like to have as a default template for each sharepoint site to make it easy for each department manager to edit and make news.

However this does not seem to be as easy as I thought it would be to just download and add an existing .aspx template to the individual sites.
Nor does it look like it wants to grab the template from another site even if I have the link to it.
It seems like Microsoft wants the user to make the template for each individual site manually and save it one by one.

Does anyone have an easy solution to this? I've managed to download the .aspx files so now I'd just have to place them in the individual sites.

I've read about going to classic view to access the library in sharepoint online but is that even an option in the Office 365 package? I cant seem to find anything pointing me towards a classic view for sharepoint in the admin center.

Answer 1

Hi @Fredrik_OT

Per my research, upload .aspx site templates to sharepoint modern site is not supported. It only support in SharePoint Server 2013, SharePoint Server 2016, SharePoint Server 2019 (classic sites only), and SharePoint Online (classic sites only). Please refer to the following document

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/save-download-and-upload-a-sharepoint-site-as-a-template

As a workaround, I would recommend you to use Site Page API. Please follow the steps

• Create the page via POST /sites/{site-id}/pages, which returns the newly created site Page.
• Publish the new page --> POST /sites/{siteId}/pages/{pageId}/publish

Here is the similar issue with yours

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1153417/cannot-upload-aspx-file-to-sharepoint-site-pages-u

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