title: Wordpress home page resulting in 404 error
body: <p>I've searched for this issue and nothing I have seen so far seems to be the same issue as me.</p>
  
  <p>I have a Wordpress blog setup under a sub folder of a domain ( /development ). Everything works fine. I then changed the permalinks to nice links. Now everything still works fine, EXCEPT for the home page, which results in a 404 on the IIS server.</p>
  
  <p>If I manually put "index.php" after it, the home page appears, but if I don't, it errors. The thing is, the home link that wordpress generates points only to "/" (which is actually what I want anyway).</p>
  
  <p>Here's something interesting...if I then create an index.html file under the root of where Wordpress is and navigate to the home page again, I get the HTML file returned. It's almost as if this server doesn't default to index.php but will happily look for index.html.</p>
  
  <p>I think this might be an issue with it being on IIS. How can I tell it to look for index.php as default?</p>
  
  <p>I have no way of installing additional components / software and it's on a shared server. I don't mind having "index.php" but I'd like the home page to work without it.</p>
  
  <p>Please help if you can.</p>
  
  <p>Many thanks,
  Michael.</p>