title: Set index.asp as default homepage
body: <p>Please have in mind I am totally new to asp.net</p>
  
  <p>I have a customer that needs his old asp website to be seen on the new hosting while the new website is being developed.</p>
  
  <p>I have uploaded the asp files on the server, but index.asp does not load when typing the domain on the browser (example: www.customerdomain.com)</p>
  
  <p>Browser message:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>You don't have permission to access / on this server.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>It does load when accesing it directly (example: www.customerdomain.com/index.asp)</p>
  
  <p>Searching into the old files, there is a <code>web.config</code> file containing this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
  &lt;configuration&gt;
    &lt;system.webServer&gt;
      &lt;defaultDocument enabled="true"&gt;
        &lt;files&gt;
          &lt;clear /&gt;
          &lt;add value="index.aspx" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="index.asp" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="index.htm" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="index.html" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="home.aspx" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="home.asp" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="home.htm" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="home.html" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="default.aspx" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="default.asp" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="default.htm" /&gt;
          &lt;add value="default.html" /&gt;
        &lt;/files&gt;
      &lt;/defaultDocument&gt;
    &lt;/system.webServer&gt;
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>As this did not work on loading index.asp by default, I tried changing it to this one, as seen on several topics related to this issue:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;configuration&gt;
    &lt;system.webServer&gt;
      &lt;defaultDocument enabled="true"&gt;
        &lt;files&gt;
          &lt;clear /&gt;
          &lt;add value="index.asp" /&gt;
        &lt;/files&gt;
      &lt;/defaultDocument&gt;
    &lt;/system.webServer&gt;
  &lt;/configuration&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>None of this worked.</p>
  
  <p>How can I make index.asp load as homepage?</p>