diff --git a/collects/meta/web/www/index.rkt b/collects/meta/web/www/index.rkt
index 7d466df821..fc2f2ae783 100644
--- a/collects/meta/web/www/index.rkt
+++ b/collects/meta/web/www/index.rkt
@@ -56,8 +56,9 @@
      @code{#lang web-server/insta
            ;; A "hello world" web server
            (define (start request)
+            (response/xexpr)
              '(html
-               (body "Hello World")))}
+               (body "Hello World"))))}
      @desc{This example implements a web server using the
        @elemcode{web-server/insta} language.  Each time a connection is made to
        the server, the @elemcode{start} function is called to get the HTML to