I've extended an IIS website as a WSS 3.0 web application. I did not
create a site collection at the root of the website. I want the root
to function as a non-WSS ASP.NET application.

Because the IIS website has been extended to WSS, IIS seems to be
ignoring the default content page settings I have specified. For
example, I have specified Default.html as a default content page,
uploaded a default.html file to the root folder. Accessing
http://mydomain/ does not load up the contents of my default.html file
automatically. Instead, the following text is displayed:

HTTP/1.1 404
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 17:08:32 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
MicrosoftSharePointTeamServices: 12.0.0.4518

I would like to know if anyone has a workaround for this issue.