X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/19d0b4c509ec720f9ffc1ea13f758c5825308834..b0af0440838407be80c6208b15f969bc2942008e:/services/api/app/controllers/static_controller.rb

diff --git a/services/api/app/controllers/static_controller.rb b/services/api/app/controllers/static_controller.rb
index ba69b8464f..fda088095e 100644
--- a/services/api/app/controllers/static_controller.rb
+++ b/services/api/app/controllers/static_controller.rb
@@ -6,7 +6,13 @@ class StaticController < ApplicationController
   skip_before_filter :require_auth_scope_all, :only => [ :home, :login_failure ]
 
   def home
-    redirect_to Rails.configuration.workbench_address
+    if Rails.configuration.respond_to? :workbench_address
+      redirect_to Rails.configuration.workbench_address
+    else
+      render json: {
+        error: ('This is the API server; you probably want to be at the workbench for this installation. Unfortunately, config.workbench_address is not set so I can not redirect you there automatically')
+      }
+    end
   end
 
 end