default redirects not working

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I have a seam 2.2.0.GA project which contains both an admin and a consumer web site bundled. When a user goes to http://myhost it should default to the consumer apps home page. This is running on jboss 5.1.0.GA in an EAR, so in application.xml, I have:

   <module>
      <web>
         <web-uri>MyApp.war</web-uri>
         <context-root>/</context-root>
      </web>
   </module>

Then in that wars root, I have this in index.html

<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=/home">

and in Home.page.xml, I have

<rewrite pattern="/home" />

Now if I go to http://myhost:8080 in a browser, it incorrectly redirects to:
http://myhost:8080/consumer/Home.seam

but if I go to http://myhost:8080/index.html in a browser, it redirects to:
http://myhost:8080/home

which is the behavior I want since I want to hide all the consumer and seam paths.