ISAPI Filter & Managed Path Help !!!

[Turki Ben Sumih]

Dear Friends,
I'm assigned a task to create a page for project Server.The company
needs that when you type http://myServer; it shows a page then you
click it after that you will be directed to http://myServer/Projectserver. I
did the following:
1. I created a page named greeting.html and put it in the wwwroot.
2. I put greeting.html at the top level in the default website properties
documents
Now when i type http://myserver it gives me http://myserver/default.aspx
instead of http://myserver/greeting.html
I found out that the Sharepoint ISAPI filter takes control of this issue
where it blocks all requests that are not in the managed path. I read an
article to add a new path in the managed path of the sharepoint but it does
not work where i added my page to the excluded & included path.
So, Can anybody help me finding a solution for my issue where when i type
http://myserver i am directed to http://myserver/greeting.html
Note: when i delete the root site for WSS , my page works BUT Risks ,Issues
and Documents dont work !
Thanks in Advanced.

 

[Kenneth Lau]

Use notepad to add a meta tag on the default.aspx page to redirect to the
greeting.html.

<META http-equiv="refresh" content="1;URL=http://myserver/greating.html/">

Kenneth Lau

 

[Turki Ben Sumih]

Dear Kenneth Lau,
Thank you so much for your solution, but i need another solution without
directing because when i type http://myserver the Default.aspx appears first
then i am directed to greeting.html !!
could you please provide me with other solution e.g editing the ISAPI Filter
to add my site !

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

I don't know how far you are with your implementation, but if it's at all
practical, I'd put WSS on different port and website than the default. This
will make your life much easier.

 

[Turki Ben Sumih]

Dear Gary,
Could you please explain your solution in more details, i feel that your
solution will help me so much.

 

[Gary L. Chefetz [MVP]]

Turki Ben Sumih:

If you install WSS on a different virtual server (Create a new website and
set it to port 8088 or 81 or something else, you will no longer face path
management concerns with WSS. Project Server running on the default web site
on port 80, can talk to WSS running on the same machine on another port, or
on a separate machine entirely. It's like a marriage where the couple
maintains separate bedrooms. This way there's no fighting over the
covers.<g> Does that help?

 

[Turki Ben Sumih]

Gary;
thanks I will try this solution.