Re: default page

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


Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 16:27:05 +1100

Ah, right. that clarifies things a little

and if you type http://www.yoursite.com/ ? (note trailing slash)

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Jason Brown
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"Benjamin" <Benjamin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:DF678F90-249F-4255-ABA9-81A9D096F531@microsoft.com...
> It is letting it through because if I manually type 
> www.mysite.com/index.html
> it will load the page, but if I type www.mysite.com it will not default to
> any page what so ever even though I have it set up to.
>
> "Jason Brown [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Jason Brown
>> Microsoft GTSC, IIS
>>
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no
>> rights.
>>
>> "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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