What is this functionality? How do I get it working?

[hellswraith]

Hey all, I am having a brain dump.

What is it called (technical term) when someone types in www.somesite.com and the server goes to the www.somesite.com/index.html page automatically because it knows to do that?

The problem I have is I created a web project at www.swwarealestate.com, and I have an Index.aspx page that is going to be the main page. When I go to www.swwarealestate.com I get a 403 forbidden error. But when I type in www.swwarealestate.com/Index.aspx it goes to the page. Do I need to get tech support involved, or is there something I am missing. I have set the Index.aspx page as the start up page, but no luck there.

Basically, if you know how to fix this, please do tell. If you don't, could I get the term that describes this behavior so I can talk to tech support about it?

Thanks everyone.

[Edneeis]

In IIS you can set the default page (actually a list) for a site and that is the one it goes to or tries to go to if there is no page in the URL. So it depends on what they have in the list (if it is an IIS host). You may want to try changing the page name to default.aspx or index.aspx (lower case).

[hellswraith]

Thanks, I renamed it to default, and that works fine. It is weird, the host is www.webhost4life.com. I use www.ehostingbiz.com, which is pretty much the same to host my site, and they map index.aspx but the www.webhost4life.com doesn't. Oh well, not a big deal, just use default.aspx instead.

Thanks.

[Serge]

You can actually add Index.aspx to the list of the default pages (in IIS).