IIS8 Default Document yields 404 not found error

Question

I have a new Windows Server 2012 machine with IIS 8. I have installed an application that uses Windows Authentication for the login page. The application uses .NET 2.0 (whic

Answer 1

I think I have solved this problem. IIS 8 does not seem to respect the order of documents in the list of default documents and was always selecting default.aspx which was shown as the last document in the list.
My main application does not have a default.aspx page. When I removed all the entries in the list of default documents so that only the one and only document I needed for the main application was shown it worked correctly. This is a bit of a pain as my application has lots of sub-applications that use different landing pages. One of which uses default.aspx. We usually specified them all at the top level and used inheritance on the sub-applications, but now it seems each sub-application will need to be configured individually.