How to show a "cover page" for a Servicestack api site / Redirect to another website

Question

We have a "webapi" site built using servicestack and everything works great

Now browsing to the site brings up the ~/metadata page

Is there an option to show a custom stub page as in - pls visit the main site at www.abc.com

or better yet, redirect the browser to www.abc.com

Answer 1

In the EndpointHostConfig , you can set MetadataRedirectPath and DefaultRedirectPath. However, looking at the source code MetadataRedirectPath and DefaultRedirectPath both expect a relative url .

If you need more control or want to redirect to an outside site then you can intercept the entire request . So in your specific case you can do the following:

In AppHost configuration

SetConfig(new EndpointHostConfig
{
    RawHttpHandlers =
    {
         httpReq => httpReq.PathInfo == "/metadata" ? 
            new RedirectHttpHandler { AbsoluteUrl = "http://www.abc.com" } 
            : null
     },
});

Edit: Changed code to reflect mythz suggestion.