Modifications in default document won't take effect

Question

We have a website developed by ASP.NET+IIS7 and its default document is default.aspx. It works fine. But when we tried to switch the default to index.html, weird things happened.

We have modified web.config as follows: <defaultDocument> <files> <clear /> <add value="index.html" /> </files> </defaultDocument>

and we have clear everything under C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files``, and restart the worker process. We even changed the name of Default.aspx to dddd.aspx.

But everything stays the same when accessing with http://localhost/<MyAppName>/!

And when we tried to access with http://localhost/<MyAppName>/index.html, it works fine.

Any suggestions would be highly appreciated.

Answer 1

You have to change your IIS Website Settings. The order in which the documents will be served.

You problably have
Default.aspx
Index.html

It should be
Index.html
Default.aspx