Re: Peculiar IIS behavior

Josh Hillman ( (no email) )
Fri, 2 May 1997 13:02:32 -0400

> Check the setting in the service manager what the default document
setting
> is.

As posted in the original message I had sent, it's set to "index.html" like
it always has been. The problem is only occuring on the UNC listed root
directory--subdirectories work fine. The actual root to our primary
website is the root directory of a partition (drive letter, E) on the same
drive in which IIS 3.0 resides. There are no problems there at all.

Here's the original message again:

I noticed this peculiar behavior with IIS 3.0 and was wondering if anyone
else has run into it:

I have a second hard drive in one our servers that I've partitioned (NTFS)
into two 1GB partitions. On one of those partitions, I took the root
directory (H:\) and shared it so that it could be accessed by IIS 3.0
(running on a different machine in the same domain).
The directory and files are:

H:\index.html
H:\temp\index.html

When enter in the following URLs, I get the following responses:

http://mywebserver/testwww (as well as http://mywebserver/testwww/)
HTTP/1.0 404 Object Not Found
http://mywebserver/testwww/index.html
(displays the "index.html" page normally)
http://mywebserver/testwww/temp
(displays the "index.html" page normally)

The problem is that it's not displaying the index.html file by default--but
ONLY in the root directory, wheareas in other subdirectories, it does
display index.html automatically (without having to type it in the URL).

In IIS, here are the settings:

Directory: \\machinename\www
Virtual Directory: /testwww
Account info: (using an account/password for use with the shared
resource)
Access: Read
Enable Default document: index.html
Directory Browsing: (not allowed)

There are no errors displaying anywhere (including Event Viewer).

Josh Hillman
hillman@talstar.com