Default home page? ASP website

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Hi guys, I'm going to be publishing my website very soon and MWEB is hosting it. I'm a little confused as to what the name of my home page should be. I'm using ASP.NET 3.5 and so all my pages are "xxxxx.aspx". Currently my default home page is named "Home.aspx". However, with MWEB where do I specify "Home.aspx" as my home page or do I not have a choice at all?

:confused:
 
I do not do know their hosting setup, but I would assume the file needs to be named "index.aspx". If their servers allow .htaccess files, you can create a file named ".htaccess" with the following text:

DirectoryIndex Home.aspx

Good luck!
 
JJRM said:
Hi guys, I'm going to be publishing my website very soon and MWEB is hosting it. I'm a little confused as to what the name of my home page should be. I'm using ASP.NET 3.5 and so all my pages are "xxxxx.aspx". Currently my default home page is named "Home.aspx". However, with MWEB where do I specify "Home.aspx" as my home page or do I not have a choice at all?

:confused:
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index. xxx is your default home page unless spesified otherwise by the server admin
 
Ok I'll run a test and publish an index.aspx page and see what happens...
 
gdiza said:
Yeah, once your site is setup, share the URL.

I get any viruses from it and I'm coming hunting bru! :D
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Hehehe, hey, it's nothing fancy. And its my first website anyhow so I guess I'm just proud of myself for getting this off the ground. But I'm sure its child's play for all you guys who develop sites regularly.
 
You're all wrong. On an IIS server the default folder redirect is Default.asp or Default.aspx.
 
default.php
index.html
index.htm > index.html
Default.aspx on IIS and apache
index.xml
 
Who in their right mind would ever use IIS for a page :>
 
Raithlin said:
You're all wrong. On an IIS server the default folder redirect is Default.asp or Default.aspx.
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Just wanted to post that.

default.* is usually the default on MS servers. Apache and others is setup for index.*

M$ powertrip... they decided the standard you have to follow even though W3C says otherwise
 
Raithlin said:
You're all wrong. On an IIS server the default folder redirect is Default.asp or Default.aspx.
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Lemme make it simpler

Top Developers
Developer Dec-08 Share Jan-09 Share Change
Apache 95,678,052 51.24% 96,947,298 52.26% 1.02%
Microsoft 63,126,940 33.81% 61,038,371 32.91% -0.90%
Google 10,455,103 5.60% 9,868,819 5.32% -0.28%
nginx 3,354,329 1.80% 3,462,551 1.87% 0.07%
lighttpd 3,046,333 1.63% 2,989,416 1.61% -0.02%
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Your blanket statement accounts for 1/3rd of websites,ours for 1/2.
 
PsyWulf said:
Lemme make it simpler

Your blanket statement accounts for 1/3rd of websites,ours for 1/2.
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What are you on about? Raithlin was just saying that the people quoting IIS default pages were wrong and IIS default pages are default.asp/aspx ???

So what if Apache accounts for more than half of all web servers. That has no correlation to the discussion at all.
 
AcidRaZor said:
What are you on about? Raithlin was just saying that the people quoting IIS default pages were wrong and IIS default pages are default.asp/aspx ???

So what if Apache accounts for more than half of all web servers. That has no correlation to the discussion at all.
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I prefer it when people don't use blanket statements like "You are all wrong"
Or did you miss that part
 
PsyWulf said:
I prefer it when people don't use blanket statements like "You are all wrong"
Or did you miss that part
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Nope I didn't miss that part, but quoting web server usage statistics in response to his statement "You're all wrong"?

I doth not compute

So what if he used those words. His statement is still correct?



You're all wrong ;)
 
I love it when flame wars start from seemingly innocent posts. :cool:

I meant that the previous posters were wrong. Seeing as this is a .Net application (.aspx), I assumed (correctly?) that IIS would be used, as I have yet to find an Apache server host that supports .Net. As has already been explained, IIS uses Default.* as their index page.

Technically then, my blanket statement was correct. :p All posts before mine were wrong. :D
 
PsyWulf said:
Who in their right mind would ever use IIS for a page :>
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Oh, anyone writing for the ASP.Net 3.5 platform? ;)

I host my site on IIS - it's purely out of necessity, trust me. I've enabled PHP too, but it sucks in comparison to Apache+PHP.

.Net just doesn't run on anything else though. Not even Mono comes close on the web. :(
 
Raithlin said:
Oh, anyone writing for the ASP.Net 3.5 platform? ;)

I host my site on IIS - it's purely out of necessity, trust me. I've enabled PHP too, but it sucks in comparison to Apache+PHP.

.Net just doesn't run on anything else though. Not even Mono comes close on the web. :(
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PHP+Apache= ♥
 
Raithlin said:
Seeing as this is a .Net application (.aspx), I assumed (correctly?) that IIS would be used, as I have yet to find an Apache server host that supports .Net.
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Although you are right and they probably do run IIS, technically they could still have been using Apache as Apache can easily be configured to run asp.net code using the mono module.
 
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