Re: default page

From: Jason Brown [MSFT] (i-brjaso_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 01/06/05


Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:02:26 +1100


>From that description, it sounds like there may be a firewall issue to me -
make sure that if windows firewall is on that it allows the HTTP server
through.

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"Benjamin" <Benjamin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:71B2D17A-91B5-4BA7-A688-51FA8A92E680@microsoft.com...
> 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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