Question: I recently set up a website on azurewebsites.net.

But when I go to the url http:/website.azurewebsites.net/
it doesn't load.

But when I go to http:/website.azurewebsites.net/home.aspx it loads.

What I want is that
if a user goes to http:/website.azurewebsites.net/ it loads with the home.aspx content or get redirected to http:/website.azurewebsites.net/home.aspx

This doesn't work 

```
 <system.webServer>
   <defaultDocument>
     <files>
       <clear />
       <add value="Default.aspx" />
     </files>
   </defaultDocument>
  </system.webServer>

```

Sorry here's the actual link <http://rathgarfantasyhockey.azurewebsites.net/default.aspx> which works fine, but when you go to <http://rathgarfantasyhockey.azurewebsites.net> HTTP error 404, `The resource cannot be found` is displayed.

Can anyone help??

Answer: 
According to this blog post: <http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cesardelatorre/archive/2010/07/22/how-to-set-a-default-page-to-a-windows-azure-web-role-app-silverlight-asp-net-etc.aspx>

```
<defaultDocument> 
          <files>                           
             <clear/>                           
             <add value="Default.aspx"/>                      
          </files>
</defaultDocument>

```

Should Work. Or you could Type to Url map it. To do that check out <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc668201.aspx>
Do you have a typo? 

You have:

```
<add value="Default.aspx" />

```

But you said that your "home page" that works is `/home.aspx`. 

If you want for `/home.aspx` to be displayed when the user goes to `http:/website.azurewebsites.net/`, then I can think of several ways for you to accomplish that.

Since you have `Default.aspx` as your `defaultDocument`, you can rename `home.aspx` to `Default.aspx` and when someone goes to http:/website.azurewebsites.net/ the contents of `Default.aspx` will be displayed.

If you need to keep `home.aspx` named as `home.aspx` for some reason, then as you requested if you want for `http:/website.azurewebsites.net/` to redirect to `/home.aspx` then create a file called `Default.aspx` in the root directory and edit it to contain `Response.Redirect("home.aspx", false);`. A complete example for this type of page is available at <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a8wa7sdt(v=vs.80).aspx>.

Update:

Try adding `enabled="true"` to your `defaultDocument` XML tag. See the example below from <http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.webServer/defaultDocument>

```
 <system.webServer>
      <defaultDocument enabled="true">
         <files>
            <add value="home.html" />
         </files>
      </defaultDocument>
  </system.webServer>

```