The first time I tried to setup a website with IIS I was greeted with:<\/p>\n

403 – Forbidden: Access is denied.<\/span><\/h4>\n

You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied.<\/h5>\n

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Not very friendly.\u00a0 I immediately thought I didn\u2019t have appropriate security permissions to the folder or file I was using.\u00a0 After mucking around for a while with file\/folder security I went to the web to research the problem some more.\u00a0 Amazingly, I could not find an answer.<\/p>\n

My problem was something that I couldn\u2019t even really see\u2014thanks to file explorer defaulting to hiding file extensions.<\/p>\n

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When I saved the file from Microsoft Expression Web 3, the file was named:\u00a0 \u201cdefault.html\u201d<\/p>\n

And amazingly \u201cdefault.html\u201d is not a Default Document type!\u00a0 I renamed the file to \u201cdefault.htm\u201d (which was another multi-step process) and presto-magic I see my fancy Hello World HTML in the browser.<\/p>\n

Perhaps someone with more PC skills can tell me how to rename a file type extension without turning off \u201cHide extensions for known file types.\u201d\u00a0 I couldn\u2019t see how to do it.\u00a0 And why Folder Options is no longer available from the file explorer doesn\u2019t make sense.\u00a0 I had to\u00a0 go to Control Panel then Folder Options to get to the View tab.<\/p>\n

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I doubt that I am the first (or last) person that will run into this.\u00a0 I hope this blog entry helps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first time I tried to setup a website with IIS I was greeted with: 403 – Forbidden: Access is denied. You do not have permission to view this directory or page using the credentials that you supplied. Not very friendly.\u00a0 I immediately thought I didn\u2019t have appropriate security permissions to the folder or file […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":274,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/offeman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}