Two choices are available to users for welcome page

* For a jar deployment add classpath:static/index.html
(works via Spring MVC mapping)
* For a war the same thing works, but so does adding
index.html to src/main/webapp (works via container
default servlet)

[Fixes #54092261] [bs-252]

spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/web/WebMvcAutoConfiguration.java

@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 import org.springframework.core.convert.converter.GenericConverter;
 import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
 import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
+import org.springframework.core.io.ResourceLoader;
 import org.springframework.format.Formatter;
 import org.springframework.format.FormatterRegistry;
 import org.springframework.web.accept.ContentNegotiationManager;
@@ -48,6 +49,7 @@
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.DefaultServletHandlerConfigurer;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.EnableWebMvc;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ResourceHandlerRegistry;
+import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.ViewControllerRegistry;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.config.annotation.WebMvcConfigurerAdapter;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.handler.SimpleUrlHandlerMapping;
 import org.springframework.web.servlet.resource.ResourceHttpRequestHandler;
@@ -76,6 +78,9 @@ public static class WebMvcAutoConfigurationAdapter extends WebMvcConfigurerAdapt
 		@Autowired
 		private ListableBeanFactory beanFactory;
 
+		@Autowired
+		private ResourceLoader resourceLoader;
+
 		@ConditionalOnBean(View.class)
 		@Bean
 		public BeanNameViewResolver beanNameViewResolver() {
@@ -128,6 +133,22 @@ public void addResourceHandlers(ResourceHandlerRegistry registry) {
 					"classpath:/static/", "classpath:/public/");
 		}
 
+		// Special case for static home page
+		@Override
+		public void addViewControllers(ViewControllerRegistry registry) {
+			if (this.resourceLoader.getResource("classpath:/static/index.html").exists()) {
+				registry.addViewController("/").setViewName("/index.html");
+			}
+			else if (this.resourceLoader.getResource("classpath:/public/index.html")
+					.exists()) {
+				registry.addViewController("/").setViewName("/index.html");
+			}
+			else if (this.resourceLoader.getResource("classpath:/resources/index.html")
+					.exists()) {
+				registry.addViewController("/").setViewName("/index.html");
+			}
+		}
+
 		@Configuration
 		public static class FaviconConfiguration {
 

spring-boot-samples/pom.xml

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
 		<module>spring-boot-sample-simple</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-sample-tomcat</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-sample-traditional</module>
+		<module>spring-boot-sample-web-static</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-sample-web-ui</module>
 		<module>spring-boot-sample-xml</module>
 	</modules>
@@ -42,6 +43,13 @@
 						</execution>
 					</executions>
 				</plugin>
+				<plugin>
+					<artifactId>maven-war-plugin</artifactId>
+					<version>2.3</version>
+					<configuration>
+						<failOnMissingWebXml>false</failOnMissingWebXml>
+					</configuration>
+				</plugin>
 			</plugins>
 		</pluginManagement>
 	</build>

spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-web-static/pom.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+	<parent>
+		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
+		<artifactId>spring-boot-samples</artifactId>
+		<version>0.5.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT</version>
+	</parent>
+	<artifactId>spring-boot-sample-web-static</artifactId>
+	<packaging>war</packaging>
+	<properties>
+		<main.basedir>${basedir}/../..</main.basedir>
+	</properties>
+	<dependencies>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-boot-up-web</artifactId>
+			<version>${project.version}</version>
+		</dependency>
+		<dependency>
+			<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+			<artifactId>spring-boot-up-tomcat</artifactId>
+			<version>${project.version}</version>
+			<scope>provided</scope>
+		</dependency>
+	</dependencies>
+	<build>
+		<plugins>
+			<plugin>
+				<groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
+				<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+			</plugin>
+		</plugins>
+	</build>
+</project>

spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-web-static/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/sample/ui/SampleWebStaticApplication.java

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright 2013 the original author or authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package org.springframework.boot.sample.ui;
+
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
+import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
+
+@Configuration
+@EnableAutoConfiguration
+@ComponentScan
+public class SampleWebStaticApplication {
+
+	public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
+		SpringApplication.run(SampleWebStaticApplication.class, args);
+	}
+
+}

spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-web-static/src/main/resources/logback.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<configuration>
+
+	<include resource="org/springframework/boot/logging/logback/base.xml"/>	
+	<logger name="org.springframework" level="DEBUG"/>
+
+</configuration>

spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-web-static/src/main/webapp/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html>
+  <head>
+    <title>Static</title>
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/bootstrap.min.css"/>
+  </head>
+  <body>
+    <div class="container">
+      <div class="navbar">
+        <div class="navbar-inner">
+          <a class="brand"
+              href="https://github.com/SpringSource/spring-boot">
+              Spring Boot
+          </a>
+          <ul class="nav">
+            <li>
+              <a href="/">
+                Home
+              </a>
+            </li>
+          </ul>
+        </div>
+      </div>
+      <h1>Home</h1>
+      <div>
+        Some static content
+      </div>
+    </div>
+  </body>
+</html>

spring-boot-samples/spring-boot-sample-web-static/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/sample/ui/SampleWebStaticApplicationTests.java

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+package org.springframework.boot.sample.ui;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
+import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
+import java.util.concurrent.Future;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
+
+import org.junit.AfterClass;
+import org.junit.BeforeClass;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
+import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
+import org.springframework.http.MediaType;
+import org.springframework.http.ResponseEntity;
+import org.springframework.http.client.ClientHttpResponse;
+import org.springframework.web.client.DefaultResponseErrorHandler;
+import org.springframework.web.client.RestTemplate;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+/**
+ * Basic integration tests for demo application.
+ * 
+ * @author Dave Syer
+ */
+public class SampleWebStaticApplicationTests {
+
+	private static ConfigurableApplicationContext context;
+
+	@BeforeClass
+	public static void start() throws Exception {
+		Future<ConfigurableApplicationContext> future = Executors
+				.newSingleThreadExecutor().submit(
+						new Callable<ConfigurableApplicationContext>() {
+							@Override
+							public ConfigurableApplicationContext call() throws Exception {
+								return (ConfigurableApplicationContext) SpringApplication
+										.run(SampleWebStaticApplication.class);
+							}
+						});
+		context = future.get(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
+	}
+
+	@AfterClass
+	public static void stop() {
+		if (context != null) {
+			context.close();
+		}
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testHome() throws Exception {
+		ResponseEntity<String> entity = getRestTemplate().getForEntity(
+				"http://localhost:8080", String.class);
+		assertEquals(HttpStatus.OK, entity.getStatusCode());
+		assertTrue("Wrong body (title doesn't match):\n" + entity.getBody(), entity
+				.getBody().contains("<title>Static"));
+	}
+
+	@Test
+	public void testCss() throws Exception {
+		ResponseEntity<String> entity = getRestTemplate().getForEntity(
+				"http://localhost:8080/resources/css/bootstrap.min.css", String.class);
+		assertEquals(HttpStatus.OK, entity.getStatusCode());
+		assertTrue("Wrong body:\n" + entity.getBody(), entity.getBody().contains("body"));
+		assertEquals("Wrong content type:\n" + entity.getHeaders().getContentType(),
+				MediaType.valueOf("text/css"), entity.getHeaders().getContentType());
+	}
+
+	private RestTemplate getRestTemplate() {
+		RestTemplate restTemplate = new RestTemplate();
+		restTemplate.setErrorHandler(new DefaultResponseErrorHandler() {
+			@Override
+			public void handleError(ClientHttpResponse response) throws IOException {
+			}
+		});
+		return restTemplate;
+
+	}
+
+}

spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/AbstractEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.java

@@ -310,18 +310,28 @@ protected final File getValidDocumentRoot() {
 					+ Arrays.asList(COMMON_DOC_ROOTS)
 					+ " point to a directory and will be ignored.");
 		}
+		else if (this.logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
+			this.logger.debug("Document root: " + file);
+		}
 		return file;
 	}
 
-	private File getWarFileDocumentRoot() {
-		File warFile = getCodeSourceArchive();
-		if (warFile.exists() && !warFile.isDirectory()
-				&& warFile.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith(".war")) {
-			return warFile.getAbsoluteFile();
+	private File getArchiveFileDocumentRoot(String extension) {
+		File file = getCodeSourceArchive();
+		if (this.logger.isDebugEnabled()) {
+			this.logger.debug("Code archive: " + file);
+		}
+		if (file.exists() && !file.isDirectory()
+				&& file.getName().toLowerCase().endsWith(extension)) {
+			return file.getAbsoluteFile();
 		}
 		return null;
 	}
 
+	private File getWarFileDocumentRoot() {
+		return getArchiveFileDocumentRoot(".war");
+	}
+
 	private File getCommonDocumentRoot() {
 		for (String commonDocRoot : COMMON_DOC_ROOTS) {
 			File root = new File(commonDocRoot);

spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/jetty/JettyEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.java

@@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ public EmbeddedServletContainer getEmbeddedServletContainer(
 		ServletContextInitializer[] initializersToUse = mergeInitializers(initializers);
 		Configuration[] configurations = getWebAppContextConfigurations(context,
 				initializersToUse);
+		context.setWelcomeFiles(new String[] { "index.html" });
 		context.setConfigurations(configurations);
 		context.getSessionHandler().getSessionManager()
 				.setMaxInactiveInterval(getSessionTimeout());

spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/context/embedded/tomcat/TomcatEmbeddedServletContainerFactory.java

@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ protected void prepareContext(Host host, ServletContextInitializer[] initializer
 		File docBase = getValidDocumentRoot();
 		docBase = (docBase != null ? docBase : createTempDir("tomcat-docbase"));
 		Context context = new StandardContext();
+		context.addWelcomeFile("index.html");
 		context.setName(getContextPath());
 		context.setPath(getContextPath());
 		context.setDocBase(docBase.getAbsolutePath());