Web server not loading the index.HTML file automatically?

Question

hi I'm new to the webserver and hosting world.
i have setup my windows server 2003 and iis6 and asp all working really well. just i seem to be having a small problem i added my site in iis and if i want to brows it it comes up with the sit is under construction witch its not, if i open my browser and type http://www.myite.co.uk/index.html it works fine but if i just type http://www.mysite.co.uk it goes to the under construction page.
i have changed the default content page but still no luck.
any help will be great

Thanks

Thanks but that doesnt seem to work if i do that and i load the page it takes me to c:\...\....\www.mysite.co.uk\index.html
any other ideas??

it conf for htm, html, aspx, php and asp.
so no thats not it,
but thanks for trying

any one els??

Answer 1

Hi, I'm an Apache person, but I understand that IIS out of the box has default.htm as the file it loads. You said that you had tried to edit default.htm (is that correct? I heard that it is a dynamic page, so perhaps that's why you edit it but don't see the changes). Forget it perhaps and sort out the config of IIS so that it loads the index.html first. Try within "Site settings". Also, you could try changing the filename of index.html to index.htm as I heard it might be configured to load. Not sure if this will help, but hope so.

Answer 2

For an IIS server, I believe that the default file extension is .htm. The server, if it's properly configured, should look for a file called index.htm, then index.html, index.asp, and I think even index.txt - so it's possible that your server is only looking for index.htm and can't find it.

Try either re-configuring the server, or re-naming your file, and then you should be ok.

Answer 3

change code on http://www.mysite.co.uk
place between head tags

.......w/e u have