Question

I have an ASP.Net 4.0 website hosted at winhost.com.

The default document is index.html. In the browser address bar, if I enter

http://www.mysite.com/index.html

it works fine – I get the index.html page as desired.

If, however, I simply enter http://www.mysite.com

the site behaves as if I have requested a page allowed only to authenticated users, that is, I am automatically redirected to the Login.aspx page.

Obviously this is a major panic! It means that the normal, public facing portion of the site is no longer visible unless visitors are instructed to include “index.html”.

In IIS, I have verified that the “Default Document” is index.html, and it is first in the list.

In the web.config, I tried adding

<location path="index.html">
    <system.web>
        <authorization>
            <allow users="?" />
        </authorization>
    </system.web>
</location>

But that did not help.

This all happened when I converted the site from 2.0 to 4.0. I was so busy fixing all the other problems (ajax security, wrong versions of dlls, etc.) that I never noticed this problem. Seems like it should be simple to fix, but I am stumped. Thanks for any help!

Answer 1

Check the NTFS permissions for the folder, where your website is located. And compare it with “index.htm” file permissions. Some user account must be missing.