Creating a Unique Default Home Page in a Different Directory (155254)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Internet Information Server 1.0
  • Microsoft Internet Information Server 2.0
This article was previously published under Q155254
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SUMMARY

This article shows you how to create a unique default home page that resides in a directory other than the IIS WWW publication default of wwwroot.

MORE INFORMATION

To create the unique default home page:
  1. Open the Internet Service Manager.
  2. Select the WWW service.
  3. On the Directories tab, select the default home page. It is the listing with a Home icon on the left side.
  4. Click Edit Properties.
  5. Under Directory, modify the full path to your new default home page.
  6. Under Access, verify that the "Read for HTML documents" check box and the "Execute for scripts" check box are selected.
  7. Click Help at the bottom of this dialog box for further clarification.
  8. Click OK to return to the WWW Service Directories dialog box.
  9. Verify that the Enable Default Document check box is selected.
  10. Replace the name Default.htm with the full filename of your new default home page in the Default Document list box.
  11. Click Help at the bottom of the dialog box for more information.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:6/23/2005
Keywords:kbhowto kbnetwork KB155254
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