Homepage always redirects to login

Hello,

I've spent the last few hours installing Perch runway to evaluate for my company. Setup was a little clunky but I got there in the end, I also installed the shop plugin - fine.

What I've been struggling with is finding out how I can get the home page to display. Whenever I navigate to the site in a separate icognito window I just get presented with the login form. It seems as though the site is in 'development' mode or something like that..

I have managed to get other pages working that are not at the root of the site - that's fine. I suspect there's dare I say it, some kind of bug in perch runway or I've missed something in the documentation?

Here's some tech details: Perch installed on debian, with php5.6.3 in:

    # Perch Runway
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/perch
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule .* /core/runway/start.php [L]

Dir listing to make it a bit easier:

    root@dev-db:/var/www/html# ls
    addons  config  core  index.php  old-setup  perch  resources  runtime.php  runway_v3.0.zip  templates (and .htaccess)

I did initially have everything under perch - but that didn't work either. I've also investigated rewritelog etc. I'm at a complete loss and it's killing me not knowing what's wrong at this early stage.. I'm assuming it's just a 'make site live' switch or something in the admin panel?

    Homepage location in admin is /
    Parent page is: Top level
    Routes is empty.

I added content to the regions.

Perch Runway: 3.0, PHP: 5.6.30-0+deb8u1, MySQL: mysqlnd 5.0.11-dev - 20120503 - $Id: 76b08b24596e12d4553bd41fc93cccd5bac2fe7a $, with PDO
Server OS: Linux, apache2handler
Installed apps: content (3.0), assets (3.0), categories (3.0), perch_shop_orders (1.1), perch_shop_products (1.1), perch_shop (1.1), perch_members (1.6)
App runtimes: <?php $apps_list = [ 'perch_members', 'perch_shop', ];
PERCH_LOGINPATH:
PERCH_PATH: /var/www/html
PERCH_CORE: /var/www/html/core
PERCH_RESFILEPATH: /var/www/html/resources
Image manipulation: GD
PHP limits: Max upload 2M, Max POST 8M, Memory: 128M, Total max file upload: 2M
F1: 0c66c2e1f82f9e0b7617b2cb8270f2c7
Resource folder writeable: Yes
HTTP_HOST: 192.168.171.222
DOCUMENT_ROOT: /var/www/html
REQUEST_URI: /core/settings/diagnostics/
SCRIPT_NAME: /core/settings/diagnostics/index.php

Thanks for your help, John.