prabhat If you read my original post, you would see that I am not attempting to turn /portal/myportal into /myportal (which I already know I need to change the context setting in jboss-web.xml; I have already done this and the results are consistent with the rest of my findings). Yes, I have already been through all of the documents. My issue is that the urls /portal/myportal do not work at all. When I visit them they always render as default; which seems to imply to me that it's not trying to direct to my portal instead the default portal. the results seem consistent in that if i change the theme on default, these urls show the new theme. as i pointed out, I can find my portal by going to /portal/auth/portal/myportal which implies that it's always going through the auth bracket, even when logged out (in fact, in "my portal" i do not require auth yet when i go to myportal it brings me to the login screen as if it's trying to render my default portal, which does in fact require login. If there is another channel where I should send presales support requests to, for periods during product trials, I'd be happy to hear about it. Thanks. View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4203845#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...