How to rewrite base path (i.e. "/") with IIS rewrite? - iis

How do I rewrite site's base path (i.e. /) using IIS rewrite?
I've tried this so far:
<rule name="RewriteIndexUrl" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="/" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="true" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.html" />
</rule>
Currently it's not rewriting that base path, and it's returning the index.html directly.


I could figure out a possible solution and it worked:
Remove all default documents in IIS site (i.e. index.html, index.htm, default.aspx...)
Add the following rewriting rule:
<rule name="RewriteIndexUrl" stopProcessing="true">
<match url="^" />
<conditions>
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />
<add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsDirectory" negate="false" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="index.html" />
</rule>

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