I have a self-hosted application which has an index.html file at its root. When I run the application and go to localhost:8090 (app is hosted on this port) the URL looks like: http://localhost:8090/index.html. Is there anyway I can make the URL to just be: http://localhost:8090 when on the index.html page?

Note

I'm using V3 of ServiceStack

ServiceStack v4

In ServiceStack v4 I use a raw http handler to intercept the root. In your AppHost Configure method:

public override void Configure(Container container)
{
    var handleRoot = new CustomActionHandler((httpReq, httpRes) => {
        httpRes.ContentType = "text/html";
        httpRes.WriteFile("index.html");
        httpRes.End();
    });

    RawHttpHandlers.Add(httpReq => (httpReq.RawUrl == "/") ? handleRoot : null);
}

ServiceStack v3

In ServiceStack v3 you can do a similar thing, but you will have to include the CustomActionHandler class yourself. So in your configure method:

public override void Configure(Container container)
{
    var handleRoot = new CustomActionHandler((httpReq, httpRes) => {
        httpRes.ContentType = "text/html";
        httpRes.WriteFile("index.html");
        httpRes.End();
    });

    SetConfig(new EndpointHostConfig {
        RawHttpHandlers = { httpReq => (httpReq.RawUrl == "/") ? handleRoot : null  },
    });
}

The CustomActionHandler as provided by Mythz here:

public class CustomActionHandler : IServiceStackHttpHandler, IHttpHandler 
{
    public Action<IHttpRequest, IHttpResponse> Action { get; set; }

    public CustomActionHandler(Action<IHttpRequest, IHttpResponse> action)
    {
        if (action == null)
            throw new Exception("Action was not supplied to ActionHandler");

        Action = action;
    }

    public void ProcessRequest(IHttpRequest httpReq, IHttpResponse httpRes, string operationName)
    {            
        Action(httpReq, httpRes);
    }

    public void ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
    {
        ProcessRequest(context.Request.ToRequest(GetType().Name), 
            context.Response.ToResponse(),
            GetType().Name);
    }

    public bool IsReusable
    {
        get { return false; }
    }
}

Hope that helps.