X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/da51b9328abab2df757ed13eadc7c3557315094b..52bf3c0924da239488fff3ed9907c3478ee44e6b:/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..c71b85052b 100644
--- a/services/api/app/controllers/static_controller.rb
+++ b/services/api/app/controllers/static_controller.rb
@@ -3,10 +3,16 @@ 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, :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