When publishing a web site, my default document name keeps getting removed from IIS

Question

I have an ASP.NET web site project, which I'm publishing to IIS on my Win2k8 R2 server. It has a default page called login.aspx. I set that up on the published web site.

Trouble is, every time I publish a new version of the web site, the login.aspx entry gets erased from the "Default Document" settings of the web site in IIS. This is very annoying. How can I publish my web site from Visual Studio without wiping out the default page every time?

Answer 1

Try putting a defaultDocument in your site's web.config:

<system.webServer>
    <!-- your other stuff -->

    <defaultDocument enabled="true">   
       <files>      
           <clear/>                 
           <add value="login.aspx"/>  
       </files>
    </defaultDocument>

</system.webServer>