Easy (hopefully) Q about URL and default.aspx - Sharepoint

This might be mainly due to some configuration in your firewall. You need to
check that out
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Naveedullah Khan
Senior Project Manager/ Consultant
Kalsoft (Pvt) Ltd




"Chris Kamler" wrote:

> Getting fired up on MOSS 2007, but experiencing something odd in the URL's.
>
> Let's assume my website is http://mywebsite.com. My first webpage is
> located at http://mywebsite.com/Pages/default.aspx per the defaults that
> Sharepoint set up for me.
>
> When I load my site in my Internet browser, I get a cannot be displayed when
> going to http://mywebsite.com - it's not automatically pulling to
> /Pages/default.aspx.
>
> Furthermore, on subsites, it's not pulling the default.aspx either.
> http://mywebsite.com/subsite/ isn't coming up either.
>
> I'm thinking one of three things are wrong:
>
> IIS is not set up correctly to pull the default.aspx from the Directories
> setting (it is)
> Sharepoint has some checkbox that I haven't clicked.
> The Individual browser has some sort of setting that doesn't like looking
> for default.aspx (Vista, IE 7.0)
>
> I have tested on multiple PC's and some are resolving fine, some aren't.
> This is mainly outisde the firewall that I'm having a problem.
>
> One other note - the actual DNS entry of the site is http://mysite2, but the
> external DNS entry is http://mysite.blah.blah.com. When I'm on an internal
> computer and go to http://mysite.blah.blah.com it resolves directly to
> http://mysite2/default.aspx - but not from the outside.
>
> Could there be something there??
>
> Thanks for any help you can give!!