Magnolia 6.0 reached end of life on June 26, 2019. This branch is no longer supported, see End-of-life policy.
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When accessing the webapp without the trailing slash after the context http://localhost:8080/magnoliaAuthor after login the user is presented with a 404 page rather than admincentral. This behavior is configurable via the mapperContextRootRedirectEnabled
and mapperDirectoryRedirectEnabled
attributes of the Context which may be used to restore the previous behavior. See Tomcat 9.0.0.M2 in https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/changelog.html.
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