layout add block only template

Question

I think I have a little understanding problem how magento layout works.

I have a template page/2columns-left.phtml with the following code in it:

<?php echo $this->getChildHtml('head') ?>

Now in the page.xml I have:

<block type="page/html" name="root" output="toHtml" template="page/2columns-left.phtml">
    <block type="page/html_head" name="head" as="head">
        ...
        ...
<!-- Here comes my new block -->
        <block type="core/template" name="headmeta" template="page/html/head.phtml"/>
    </block>
</block>

As you can see I want to include the page/html/head.phtml in this block. My first confusion was the block type. As I don't have any class to this template (I only have the phtml) I was not sure what to take as block type. The page/html/head.phtml right now only contains 1 line of html:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">

But right now the output of <?php echo $this->getChildHtml('head') ?> is empty.

What did I wrong? How can I include this block as a "sub-block" of head ?

Answer 1

The problem was that head.phtmlis allready in base and with that name I overwrited that template. All I needed to do was to take a name not taken yet for my head.phtml.