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

Following Michael's tutorial, I was able to just map / to my index.gsp file.

@Controller
class Routes {

    @RequestMapping({
        "/",
        "/bikes",
        "/milages",
        "/gallery",
        "/tracks",
        "/tracks/{id:\\w+}",
        "/location",
        "/about"
    })
    public String index() {
        return "forward:/index.gsp";
    }
}

Answer 2

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);
    }
}

Answer 3

It's not too hard to do... you just need to forward the default mapping...

@Configuration
public class DefaultView extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter{

    @Override
    public void addViewControllers( ViewControllerRegistry registry ) {
        registry.addViewController( "/" ).setViewName( "forward:/yourpage.html" );
        registry.setOrder( Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE );
        super.addViewControllers( registry );
    }
}

Answer 4

I am doing it as follows.

package org.gwtproject.tutorial.configuration;

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

/**
 * Configure the welcome page 
 * 
 */
@Configuration
public class SpringBootWelcomePageConfiguration extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapter implements WebMvcConfigurer {

    /**
     * redirect a user to the welcome page when he visits tha app without a
     * destination url.
     */
    @Override
    public void addViewControllers(ViewControllerRegistry registry) {
        registry.addViewController("/").setViewName("forward:/ForExampleAGwtEntrypoint.html");
        registry.setOrder(Ordered.HIGHEST_PRECEDENCE);
        super.addViewControllers(registry);
    }
}