Kestrel on AspNet vNext doesnt serve index page under /

Question

I need to be able to serve my 'index.html', under the default url /, using Kestrel web server. Right now I'm only able to access my static files with the full path i.e /index.html

Again this works perfectly on VisualStudio, the context is OSX with Kestrel

This is my Startup.cs

public void ConfigureServices(DI.IServiceCollection services)  {         services.AddMvc();  }   public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app)  {      app.UseStaticFiles();      app.UseMvc();  } 

The solution I have so far, is to do a redirect inside a HomeController. But this is plain ugly, I'm trying to serve an static html file, which I honestly don't want it to be handled by my Application, if possible served directly from Kestrel.

Answer 1

You need to enable the DefaultFilesMiddleware using UseDefaultFiles() and place it before the call to UseStaticFiles():

app.UseDefaultFiles(); app.UseStaticFiles(); 

If you don't specify otherwise, the middleware uses the DefaultFilesOptions by default, which means this list of default file names will be used:

default.htm default.html index.htm index.html 

See MSDN