Thanks Jeremy, But this doesn't seem to work. If I add the welcome_url to the universe_wsgi.ini (is this the universe config file you mentioned?) as shown below, I continue to get the welcome.html page # ---- Galaxy --------------------------------------------------------------- # Configuration of the Galaxy application. [app:main] filter-with = proxy-prefix cookie_path = /csiro welcome_url = /tool_runner?tool_id=upload1 .... If I move the welcome_url higher up in the universe_wsgi.ini file I get an error the last part is shown below: File "/home/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.7.egg/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 190, in invoke return filter(filtered) File "/home/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.7.egg/paste/deploy/loadwsgi.py", line 130, in filter_wrapper **context.local_conf) File "/home/galaxy/galaxy-dist/eggs/PasteDeploy-1.3.3-py2.7.egg/paste/deploy/util/fixtypeerror.py", line 57, in fix_call val = callable(*args, **kw) TypeError: make_prefix_middleware() got an unexpected keyword argument 'welcome_url' I can't find anywhere in the code that has the test string "welcome_html" Any ideas? Thanks Neil From: Jeremy Goecks [mailto:jeremy.goecks@emory.edu] Sent: Tuesday, 30 July 2013 7:32 AM To: Ross Cc: Burdett, Neil (ICT Centre, Herston - RBWH); galaxy-dev@lists.bx.psu.edu Subject: Re: [galaxy-dev] How to display tool instead of html WWFSMD page at start-up? There's an undocumented setting in the universe config, welcome_url, that can be used; if you point this as follows it will bring up the upload tool. welcome_url = /tool_runner?tool_id=upload1 On Jul 29, 2013, at 3:28 AM, Ross wrote: Neil, good news: the initial center panel renders static/welcome.html so easy to change. bad news: AFAIK no way to show a (dynamic) default tool form instead - others may know more.. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 5:03 PM, <Neil.Burdett@csiro.au<mailto:Neil.Burdett@csiro.au>> wrote: Hi, When Galaxy is started the centre column displays the "Hello world! It's running ..." WWFSMD? Html Page. How can this be changed so that a tool i.e. get data tool is shown up on start-up with all its text boxes etc rather than the default html file? Is this possible? Thanks Neil ___________________________________________________________ Please keep all replies on the list by using "reply all" in your mail client. To manage your subscriptions to this and other Galaxy lists, please use the interface at: http://lists.bx.psu.edu/ To search Galaxy mailing lists use the unified search at: http://galaxyproject.org/search/mailinglists/