Changing default welcome-page for spring-boot application deployed as a war

Question

I was trying to find a way to change the default welcome-page for a spring-boot application that is being deployed as a war in production but I can\'t find a way to do it wi

Answer 1

Well, a few years passed since the last answer - and code evolves..

This won't work on Spring 5 / Java 8+, you should implement the interface and override the default method.

import org.springframework.core.Ordered;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ViewControllerRegistry;
import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurer;

@Configuration
public class DefaultViewConfig implements WebMvcConfigurer {
    @Override
    public void addViewControllers(ViewControllerRegistry registry) {
        registry.addViewController("/").setViewName("/homepage.html");
        registry.setOrder(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE);
    }
}