IIS Express does not assume localhost/index.html when accessing localhost/

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How do I get localhost/ to point to localhost/index.html?

Accessing index.html directly works fine, but when accessing the site root, I get the following error:

Server Error in '/' Application.

The resource cannot be found.

Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.  Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly. 

Requested URL: /

Version Information: Microsoft .NET Framework Version:4.0.30319; ASP.NET Version:4.0.30319.33440

I looked in the IIS Express config file (%userprofile%\documents\iisexpress\config\applicationhost.config) but don't see what could be wrong.

This is the virtual directory information for my project:

<site name="MySite" id="12">
            <application path="/" applicationPool="Clr4IntegratedAppPool">
                <virtualDirectory path="/" physicalPath="C:\Users\username\path\to\project\projectname" />
            </application>
            <bindings>
                <binding protocol="http" bindingInformation="*:90210:localhost" />
            </bindings>
        </site>

And in the <system.webServer> part, it includes:

<defaultDocument enabled="true">
        <files>
            <add value="Default.htm" />
            <add value="Default.asp" />
            <add value="index.htm" />
            <add value="index.html" />
            <add value="iisstart.htm" />
            <add value="default.aspx" />
        </files>
    </defaultDocument>

user3071284 · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-10 15:13:22Z

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I added routes.IgnoreRoute(""); in RouteConfig.cs to allow localhost/ to serve localhost/index.html. Anyone know why this works?

answered Jan 10, 2014 at 15:13

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BrainSlugs83 Over a year ago

It makes sense that it would work -- you're telling MVC to not try to map that path to a specific controller and instead to let it fall back to standard ASP.NET path mapping -- which means that it will try to load the default file specified by IIS.

vikomall · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-17 19:01:03Z

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check if you have defdoc module in the globalModules list.

<globalModules> 
<add name="DefaultDocumentModule" image="...\defdoc.dll" />
......
</globalModules>

answered Dec 17, 2013 at 19:01

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user3071284 Over a year ago

The defdoc.dll is there and is not commented out. It looks like <add name="DefaultDocumentModule" image="%IIS_BIN%\defdoc.dll" />

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