For your conveinience, and to hopefully lay this thread to rest:
Edit: Also, v1.3.14 isn't the latest version - v1.3.15 is, though unrelated to this issue I believe.How do I auto-connect to a specific daemon?
Stop the Web UI before modifying the web.conf file.
Edit web.conf in config, find "default_daemon" and set its value to the daemon id in hostlist.conf
e.g. To connect to localhost you would open hostlist.conf as see a snippet such as:
...
"123459d5a5b414159caa1323f6e0c9b240c7abcd",
"localhost",
58846,
...
Use the first entry from hostlist, which is the id and add it to web.conf:
"default_daemon": "123459d5a5b414159caa1323f6e0c9b240c7abcd",
Restart the Web UI.