An ultrasimple nOOb - rookie question

Hi

I remember back in the days, if you placed an ‘index.htm(l)’ page in your web folder, that page would automatically be read. This is not the case for my page now.

I have read about the .htaccess file, whcih lets you set just about any type of file as your index file, but my page runs on a windows server, so it won’t work, as i’ve gathered.

So, how do you make this trick work? I actually want index.asp to be my index file, but i can compromise if there’s no way to do it.