title: IIS 7.5 default documents and ASP.Net MVC 2 Routes
body: <p>I am trying to deploy a website on Win Server 2008 R2 machine with IIS 7.5. The website is developed with asp net mvc2. My client asked me to deploy a simple .html document to be served until we decide to go live with the mvc app. I have created the website and published my site for testing and it works perfectly, but I cannot make my application ignore the index.html page.
  Until now I have tried the following:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>added IgnoreRoute("index.html") to the Global.asax.cs of my application</li>
  <li>set the default document in IIS to be "index.html"</li>
  <li>removed all other files from default documents.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>but I still cannot get it right.</p>