Re: default page

From: Benjamin (Benjamin_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/06/05 

Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2005 20:49:01 -0800

Nope still a no go. Funny thing when I right click on the site in IIS and
select browse it brings up the default page, but when trying to access it
from another computer over the web it doesn't load. Oh and thanks for the
quick reply!

"Bernard" wrote:

> Weird. Simple test. Copy the index.html to a new location. say c:\test\
> change the webroot point to c:\test, configure the default document to use
> index.html
>
> try to browse again...
>
> --
> Regards,
> Bernard Cheah
> http://www.tryiis.com/
> http://support.microsoft.com/
> http://www.msmvps.com/bernard/
>
>
>
> "Benjamin" <Benjamin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:34B0C189-8679-48B6-996C-F0AD17C1917A@microsoft.com...
> >I have IIS 6.0 running on a win 2k3 server. I was trying to set my default
> > document for my site because it was showing the "under construction" page
> > (iisstart.htm or something like that) so I put my index.htm in the site
> > directory and added the file name to the default document list and gave it
> > the highest priority. But now NOTHING loads for the default page. I even
> > tried to use the iisstart.html again as the default and it doesn't load as
> > the default now either. I have made sure the check box to enable a
> > default
> > document was checked. I can use a default document inside the site just
> > fine. For instance say my site is www.mysite.com I want it to load
> > index.htm
> > automatically but it won't load any default page but it will load a
> > default
> > page for say www.mysite.com/web then it will load the index.htm or
> > whatever
> > the default page may be but it will not load a default page for the root
> > of
> > the site anymore. I have tried stoping the site and I even restarted the
> > server and I still get nothing. This is becoming very frustrating, anyone
> > know what I might have broken.
>
>
>

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