I agree it's common. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the documentation then, because it implies that I should not need the second portal. Based on what I see here, from the reference manual. http://docs.jboss.com/jbportal/v2.7.1/referenceGuide/html/urls.html In 7.2 accessing a portal anonymous wrote : | The default portal is used when no portal is specified. How selection is done: | * /portal/ points to the default page of the default portal. | * /portal/portal-name/ points to the default page of the portal-name portal. | Which implies that when I start up my container from scratch, without changing the context path, I should be able to go to http://localhost:8080/portal and get the default. In addition, the documentation seems to say if I go to http://localhost:8080/portal/jimmy i should be taken to the jimmy portal. I can accept if you're going to say "no" but maybe the documentation should be clearer? View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4203985#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...