diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index a97a6b9ac06..b0f5038eb1a 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HADOOP-11172. Improve error message in Shell#runCommand on OutOfMemoryError.
     (Yongjun Zhang via wang)
 
+    HADOOP-10748. HttpServer2 should not load JspServlet. (wheat9)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer2.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer2.java
index 3741fabfa9c..1bdb256517f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer2.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/http/HttpServer2.java
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequestWrapper;
 import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
 
+import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
 import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
 import org.apache.hadoop.HadoopIllegalArgumentException;
@@ -415,6 +416,17 @@ public final class HttpServer2 implements FilterContainer {
   private static WebAppContext createWebAppContext(String name,
       Configuration conf, AccessControlList adminsAcl, final String appDir) {
     WebAppContext ctx = new WebAppContext();
+    ctx.setDefaultsDescriptor(null);
+    ServletHolder holder = new ServletHolder(new DefaultServlet());
+    Map<String, String> params = ImmutableMap. <String, String> builder()
+            .put("acceptRanges", "true")
+            .put("dirAllowed", "false")
+            .put("gzip", "true")
+            .put("useFileMappedBuffer", "true")
+            .build();
+    holder.setInitParameters(params);
+    ctx.setWelcomeFiles(new String[] {"index.html"});
+    ctx.addServlet(holder, "/");
     ctx.setDisplayName(name);
     ctx.setContextPath("/");
     ctx.setWar(appDir + "/" + name);