diff --git a/python/src/wslink/backends/aiohttp/__init__.py b/python/src/wslink/backends/aiohttp/__init__.py
index 55092789..766c0c04 100644
--- a/python/src/wslink/backends/aiohttp/__init__.py
+++ b/python/src/wslink/backends/aiohttp/__init__.py
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 import aiohttp
 import aiohttp.web as aiohttp_web
 
+
 async def _on_startup(app):
     # Emit an expected log message so launcher.py knows we've started up.
     logging.critical("wslink: Starting factory")
@@ -30,6 +31,10 @@ def _schedule_shutdown(app):
     app["state"]["shutdown_task"] = schedule_coroutine(timeout, _stop_server, app)
 
 
+async def _root_handler(request):
+    return aiohttp.web.HTTPFound("/index.html")
+
+
 async def _stop_server(app):
     # Disconnecting any connected clients of handler(s)
     for route, handler in app["state"]["server_config"]["ws"].items():
@@ -123,6 +128,8 @@ def create_webserver(server_config):
         for route, server_path in static_routes.items():
             routes.append(aiohttp_web.static(_fix_path(route), server_path))
 
+        # Resolve / => /index.html
+        web_app.router.add_route("GET", "/", _root_handler)
         web_app.add_routes(routes)
 
     if "logging_level" in server_config and server_config["logging_level"]:
diff --git a/python/src/wslink/backends/aiohttp/launcher.py b/python/src/wslink/backends/aiohttp/launcher.py
index 90f77350..d1f9b5bc 100644
--- a/python/src/wslink/backends/aiohttp/launcher.py
+++ b/python/src/wslink/backends/aiohttp/launcher.py
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 import aiohttp.web as aiohttp_web
 
+from . import _root_handler
+
 from wslink.launcher import (
     SessionManager,
     ProxyMappingManagerTXT,
@@ -237,6 +239,7 @@ def startWebServer(options, config):
     )
 
     if len(content) > 0:
+        web_app.router.add_route("GET", "/", _root_handler)
         web_app.add_routes([aiohttp_web.static("/", content)])
 
     aiohttp_web.run_app(web_app, host=host, port=port)
diff --git a/python/src/wslink/launcher.py b/python/src/wslink/launcher.py
index fd5be4d1..ee4a1d2c 100755
--- a/python/src/wslink/launcher.py
+++ b/python/src/wslink/launcher.py
@@ -587,6 +587,13 @@ def start(argv=None, description="wslink Web Launcher"):
     backends.launcher_start(args, config, backend=args.backend)
 
 
+# Used for backward compatibility
+
+
+def startWebServer(args, config, backend="aiohttp"):
+    return backends.launcher_start(args, config, backend=backend)
+
+
 # =============================================================================
 # Main
 # =============================================================================