Change footer template in specific CMS page 1.9

Question

As the title says I need to change the template path of the footer block for a specific CMS page. This is what I have in my page.xml:

<layout version="0.1.0">


    <default translate="label" module="page">
        <label>All Pages</label>
        <block type="page/html" name="root" output="toHtml" template="page/1column.phtml">

...

            <block type="page/html_footer" name="footer" as="footer" template="page/html/footer.phtml">
                <block type="page/html_wrapper" name="bottom.container" as="bottomContainer" translate="label">
                    <label>Page Footer</label>
                    <action method="setElementClass"><value>bottom-container</value></action>
                </block>
                <block type="newsletter/subscribe" name="newsletter" as="newsletter" template="newsletter/subscribe.phtml" />
            </block>

and this is what I put in the update layout XML box on the specific CMS page on the admin side:

<default>
    <reference name="root">
        <reference name="footer">
            <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/html/footer-shop.phtml</template></action>
        </reference>
   </reference> 
</default>

Footer keeps on showing footer.phtml template instead of footer-shop.phtml.

What is the correct way to change the footer template?

Answer 1

Here is the way to do it:

<reference name="footer">
    <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/html/footer-shop.phtml</template></action>
</reference>

In your code, you don't need to reference root, you only need to reference your footer block.

Also you don't need to specify the handle default as the CMS module will automatically match your specific CMS page handle with the Layout Update XML.

Answer 2

You need to use below code in admin "Layout Update XML".

<reference name="footer">
            <action method="setTemplate"><template>page/html/footer-shop.phtml</template></action>
</reference>