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

This led me to an answer for my situation. Indeed changing the order of the default documents got my index.html working after I moved it to the top of the list. I did not need to truncate the list any further.

However, the reason I was getting the error is I previously had index.aspx at the top and I did indeed have an index.aspx file in the website. But it turns out ASP.Net was not yet installed on the server. So the server returned a very misleading 404 error on the index.aspx (which was actually there) when it should have either ignored it and gone onto my test index.html file, or given me some message that it could not read .aspx file.