app_offline.htm and "directory listing denied"

When I use the "publish web site" feature in visual studio 2008, it automatically places a app_offline.htm on the web server while it is pushing the files up. If you navigate to http://MyWebSite.com/somepage.aspx you will see the application offline pag开发者_StackOverflow社区e, which is good.

However if you navigate to http://MyWebSite.com you will get a directory listing denied error message. Is there any way to correct this behavior?

What is the default document? If the default document is a .htm(l) file, which won't pass through the .NET ISAPI (If you are using IIS 6 or less or on 7+ in classic mode), then .NET won't have the chance to intercept the request and display the offline page.

Since it is not placing any web.config there to allow viewing pages it will give that error. You can set a default page in IIS though.