diff --git a/scm-ui/public/index.html b/scm-ui/public/index.mustache
similarity index 56%
rename from scm-ui/public/index.html
rename to scm-ui/public/index.mustache
index 23dc1b9782..802be2ca97 100644
--- a/scm-ui/public/index.html
+++ b/scm-ui/public/index.mustache
@@ -8,20 +8,11 @@
       manifest.json provides metadata used when your web app is added to the
       homescreen on Android. See https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/engage-and-retain/web-app-manifest/
     -->
-    <link rel="manifest" href="/scm/manifest.json">
-    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="/scm/favicon.ico">
-    <!--
-      Notice the use of %PUBLIC_URL% in the tags above.
-      It will be replaced with the URL of the `public` folder during the build.
-      Only files inside the `public` folder can be referenced from the HTML.
+    <link rel="manifest" href="{{ contextPath }}/manifest.json">
+    <link rel="shortcut icon" href="{{ contextPath }}/favicon.ico">
 
-      Unlike "/favicon.ico" or "favicon.ico", "%PUBLIC_URL%/favicon.ico" will
-      work correctly both with client-side routing and a non-root public URL.
-      Learn how to configure a non-root public URL by running `npm run build`.
-    -->
-    <base href="/scm">
-
-    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/scm/styles/scm.css">
+    <base href="{{ contextPath }}">
+    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{{ contextPath }}/styles/scm.css">
 
     <title>SCM-Manager</title>
   </head>
@@ -41,9 +32,9 @@
       To create a production bundle, use `npm run build` or `yarn build`.
     -->
     <script>
-      window.ctxPath = "/scm";
+      window.ctxPath = "{{ contextPath }}";
     </script>
-    <script src="/scm/vendor.bundle.js"></script>
-    <script src="/scm/scm-ui.bundle.js"></script>
+    <script src="{{ contextPath }}/vendor.bundle.js"></script>
+    <script src="{{ contextPath }}/scm-ui.bundle.js"></script>
   </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/ForwardingPushStateDispatcher.java b/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/ForwardingPushStateDispatcher.java
deleted file mode 100644
index ae9ef97499..0000000000
--- a/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/ForwardingPushStateDispatcher.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-package sonia.scm;
-
-import sonia.scm.util.HttpUtil;
-
-import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-/**
- * This dispatcher forwards every request to the index.html of the application.
- *
- * @since 2.0.0
- */
-public class ForwardingPushStateDispatcher implements PushStateDispatcher {
-  @Override
-  public void dispatch(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, String uri) throws IOException {
-    String path = HttpUtil.append(request.getContextPath(), "index.html");
-    RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher(path);
-    try {
-      dispatcher.forward(request, response);
-    } catch (ServletException e) {
-      throw new IOException("failed to forward request", e);
-    }
-  }
-}
diff --git a/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/PushStateDispatcherProvider.java b/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/PushStateDispatcherProvider.java
index 653f7b4bdc..f0d2807497 100644
--- a/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/PushStateDispatcherProvider.java
+++ b/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/PushStateDispatcherProvider.java
@@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ package sonia.scm;
 import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
 import com.google.common.base.Strings;
 
+import javax.inject.Inject;
 import javax.inject.Provider;
 
 /**
  * Injection Provider for the {@link PushStateDispatcher}. The provider will return a {@link ProxyPushStateDispatcher}
  * if the system property {@code PushStateDispatcherProvider#PROPERTY_TARGET} is set to a proxy target url, otherwise
- * a {@link ForwardingPushStateDispatcher} is used.
+ * a {@link TemplatingPushStateDispatcher} is used.
  *
  * @since 2.0.0
  */
@@ -17,11 +18,18 @@ public class PushStateDispatcherProvider implements Provider<PushStateDispatcher
   @VisibleForTesting
   static final String PROPERTY_TARGET = "sonia.scm.ui.proxy";
 
+  private Provider<TemplatingPushStateDispatcher> templatingPushStateDispatcherProvider;
+
+  @Inject
+  public PushStateDispatcherProvider(Provider<TemplatingPushStateDispatcher> templatingPushStateDispatcherProvider) {
+    this.templatingPushStateDispatcherProvider = templatingPushStateDispatcherProvider;
+  }
+
   @Override
   public PushStateDispatcher get() {
     String target = System.getProperty(PROPERTY_TARGET);
     if (Strings.isNullOrEmpty(target)) {
-      return new ForwardingPushStateDispatcher();
+      return templatingPushStateDispatcherProvider.get();
     }
     return new ProxyPushStateDispatcher(target);
   }
diff --git a/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/TemplatingPushStateDispatcher.java b/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/TemplatingPushStateDispatcher.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6652975c4a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scm-webapp/src/main/java/sonia/scm/TemplatingPushStateDispatcher.java
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+package sonia.scm;
+
+import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
+import sonia.scm.template.Template;
+import sonia.scm.template.TemplateEngine;
+import sonia.scm.template.TemplateEngineFactory;
+
+import javax.inject.Inject;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.Writer;
+
+/**
+ * This dispatcher renders the /index.mustache template, which is merged in from the scm-ui package.
+ *
+ * @since 2.0.0
+ */
+public class TemplatingPushStateDispatcher implements PushStateDispatcher {
+
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  static final String TEMPLATE = "/index.mustache";
+
+  private final TemplateEngine templateEngine;
+
+  @Inject
+  public TemplatingPushStateDispatcher(TemplateEngineFactory templateEngineFactory) {
+    this(templateEngineFactory.getDefaultEngine());
+  }
+
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  TemplatingPushStateDispatcher(TemplateEngine templateEngine) {
+    this.templateEngine = templateEngine;
+  }
+
+  @Override
+  public void dispatch(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response, String uri) throws IOException {
+    response.setContentType("text/html");
+    response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
+
+    Template template = templateEngine.getTemplate(TEMPLATE);
+    try (Writer writer = response.getWriter()) {
+      template.execute(writer, new IndexHtmlModel(request));
+    }
+  }
+
+  @VisibleForTesting
+  static class IndexHtmlModel {
+
+    private final HttpServletRequest request;
+
+    private IndexHtmlModel(HttpServletRequest request) {
+      this.request = request;
+    }
+
+    public String getContextPath() {
+      return request.getContextPath();
+    }
+
+  }
+}
diff --git a/scm-webapp/src/test/java/sonia/scm/ForwardingPushStateDispatcherTest.java b/scm-webapp/src/test/java/sonia/scm/ForwardingPushStateDispatcherTest.java
deleted file mode 100644
index c5a42d2346..0000000000
--- a/scm-webapp/src/test/java/sonia/scm/ForwardingPushStateDispatcherTest.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,63 +0,0 @@
-package sonia.scm;
-
-import org.junit.Test;
-import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
-import org.mockito.Mock;
-import org.mockito.junit.MockitoJUnitRunner;
-
-import javax.servlet.RequestDispatcher;
-import javax.servlet.ServletException;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
-import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
-
-import java.io.IOException;
-
-import static org.junit.Assert.*;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.doThrow;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
-import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
-
-@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
-public class ForwardingPushStateDispatcherTest {
-
-  @Mock
-  private HttpServletRequest request;
-
-  @Mock
-  private RequestDispatcher requestDispatcher;
-
-  @Mock
-  private HttpServletResponse response;
-
-  private ForwardingPushStateDispatcher dispatcher = new ForwardingPushStateDispatcher();
-
-  @Test
-  public void testDispatch() throws ServletException, IOException {
-    when(request.getContextPath()).thenReturn("");
-    when(request.getRequestDispatcher("/index.html")).thenReturn(requestDispatcher);
-
-    dispatcher.dispatch(request, response, "/something");
-
-    verify(requestDispatcher).forward(request, response);
-  }
-
-  @Test
-  public void testDispatchWithContextPath() throws ServletException, IOException {
-    when(request.getContextPath()).thenReturn("/scm");
-    when(request.getRequestDispatcher("/scm/index.html")).thenReturn(requestDispatcher);
-
-    dispatcher.dispatch(request, response, "/something");
-
-    verify(requestDispatcher).forward(request, response);
-  }
-
-  @Test(expected = IOException.class)
-  public void testWrapServletException() throws ServletException, IOException {
-    when(request.getContextPath()).thenReturn("");
-    when(request.getRequestDispatcher("/index.html")).thenReturn(requestDispatcher);
-    doThrow(ServletException.class).when(requestDispatcher).forward(request, response);
-
-    dispatcher.dispatch(request, response, "/something");
-  }
-
-}
diff --git a/scm-webapp/src/test/java/sonia/scm/PushStateDispatcherProviderTest.java b/scm-webapp/src/test/java/sonia/scm/PushStateDispatcherProviderTest.java
index 31e5f7c6dc..4316d9bc06 100644
--- a/scm-webapp/src/test/java/sonia/scm/PushStateDispatcherProviderTest.java
+++ b/scm-webapp/src/test/java/sonia/scm/PushStateDispatcherProviderTest.java
@@ -1,14 +1,23 @@
 package sonia.scm;
 
+import com.google.inject.util.Providers;
 import org.assertj.core.api.Assertions;
 import org.junit.After;
 import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.mockito.Mock;
+import org.mockito.junit.MockitoJUnitRunner;
+import sonia.scm.template.TemplateEngine;
 
-import static org.junit.Assert.*;
-
+@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
 public class PushStateDispatcherProviderTest {
 
-  private PushStateDispatcherProvider provider = new PushStateDispatcherProvider();
+  @Mock
+  private TemplateEngine templateEngine;
+
+  private PushStateDispatcherProvider provider = new PushStateDispatcherProvider(
+    Providers.of(new TemplatingPushStateDispatcher(templateEngine))
+  );
 
   @Test
   public void testGetProxyPushStateWithPropertySet() {
@@ -20,7 +29,7 @@ public class PushStateDispatcherProviderTest {
   @Test
   public void testGetProxyPushStateWithoutProperty() {
     PushStateDispatcher dispatcher = provider.get();
-    Assertions.assertThat(dispatcher).isInstanceOf(ForwardingPushStateDispatcher.class);
+    Assertions.assertThat(dispatcher).isInstanceOf(TemplatingPushStateDispatcher.class);
   }
 
   @After
diff --git a/scm-webapp/src/test/java/sonia/scm/TemplatingPushStateDispatcherTest.java b/scm-webapp/src/test/java/sonia/scm/TemplatingPushStateDispatcherTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..126ba9ac0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scm-webapp/src/test/java/sonia/scm/TemplatingPushStateDispatcherTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+package sonia.scm;
+
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.mockito.ArgumentCaptor;
+import org.mockito.Mock;
+import org.mockito.junit.MockitoJUnitRunner;
+import sonia.scm.template.Template;
+import sonia.scm.template.TemplateEngine;
+
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
+import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.io.PrintWriter;
+import java.io.StringWriter;
+import java.io.Writer;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.mockito.ArgumentMatchers.any;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
+import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;
+
+@RunWith(MockitoJUnitRunner.class)
+public class TemplatingPushStateDispatcherTest {
+
+  @Mock
+  private HttpServletRequest request;
+
+  @Mock
+  private HttpServletResponse response;
+
+  @Mock
+  private TemplateEngine templateEngine;
+
+  @Mock
+  private Template template;
+
+  private TemplatingPushStateDispatcher dispatcher;
+
+  @Before
+  public void setUpMocks() {
+    dispatcher = new TemplatingPushStateDispatcher(templateEngine);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testDispatch() throws IOException {
+    when(request.getContextPath()).thenReturn("/scm");
+    when(templateEngine.getTemplate(TemplatingPushStateDispatcher.TEMPLATE)).thenReturn(template);
+
+    when(response.getWriter()).thenReturn(new PrintWriter(new StringWriter()));
+
+    dispatcher.dispatch(request, response, "/someurl");
+
+    verify(response).setContentType("text/html");
+    verify(response).setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
+
+    ArgumentCaptor<Object> captor = ArgumentCaptor.forClass(Object.class);
+
+    verify(template).execute(any(Writer.class), captor.capture());
+
+    TemplatingPushStateDispatcher.IndexHtmlModel model = (TemplatingPushStateDispatcher.IndexHtmlModel) captor.getValue();
+    assertEquals("/scm", model.getContextPath());
+  }
+
+}