Set index.html as the default page

Question

I have an empty ASP.NET application and I added an index.html file. I want to set the index.html as default page for the site.

I have tried to right click on the index.html and set as start page, and when I run it the url is: http://localhost:5134/index.html but what I really want is that when I type: http://localhost:5134, it should load the index.html page.

my route config:

public class RouteConfig
    {
        public static void RegisterRoutes(RouteCollection routes)
        {
            routes.IgnoreRoute("{resource}.axd/{*pathInfo}");

            routes.MapRoute(
                name: "Default",
                url: "{controller}/{action}/{id}",
                defaults: new { controller = "Home", action = "Index", id = UrlParameter.Optional }
            );
        }
    }

Answer 1

I added an instruction to my route config to ignore empty routes and that solved my problem.

routes.IgnoreRoute("");