X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/19d0b4c509ec720f9ffc1ea13f758c5825308834..eee13aa7003afff6ccf390ac92fe2b4a525d16f9:/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..9c66f01872 100644
--- a/services/api/app/controllers/static_controller.rb
+++ b/services/api/app/controllers/static_controller.rb
@@ -3,10 +3,25 @@ class StaticController < ApplicationController
 
   skip_before_filter :find_object_by_uuid
   skip_before_filter :render_404_if_no_object
-  skip_before_filter :require_auth_scope_all, :only => [ :home, :login_failure ]
+  skip_before_filter :require_auth_scope, only: [:home, :empty, :login_failure]
 
   def home
-    redirect_to Rails.configuration.workbench_address
+    respond_to do |f|
+      f.html do
+        if Rails.configuration.workbench_address
+          redirect_to Rails.configuration.workbench_address
+        else
+          render_not_found "Oops, this is an API endpoint. You probably want to point your browser to an Arvados Workbench site instead."
+        end
+      end
+      f.json do
+        render_not_found "Path not found."
+      end
+    end
+  end
+
+  def empty
+    render text: "-"
   end
 
 end