Redirect to a "site maintenance" page

[Mike Gleason jr Couturier]

Hi,

What's a clean way to redirect users on an information page while doing site
maintenance...

Can we do it with urlMappings !? (wildcard "*"?)

Thanks

 

[Cowboy \(Gregory A. Beamer\)]

Provided it is site maintenance and not server maintenance, point the site,
in IIS, to a different directory.
For server maintenance, it is a bit more involved, as you have to resolve to
a different server during maintenance.

 

[George Ter-Saakov]

Check out the app_offline.htm
http://weblogs.asp.net/eporter/archive/2005/10/05/426708.aspx


George

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:
!> Provided it is site maintenance and not server maintenance,
!> point the site, in IIS, to a different directory.

Actually, all that's needed is to create an "app_offline.htm" file
in the root directory of the application which is being updated.

See :
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/10/06/426755.aspx

re:
!> For server maintenance, it is a bit more involved, as you
!> have to resolve to a different server during maintenance.

Yes. That's a different problem.

Provided it is site maintenance and not server maintenance, point the site, in IIS, to a different directory.

 

[Mike Gleason jr Couturier]

Hi,

What's a clean way to redirect users on an information page while doing
site maintenance...

Can we do it with urlMappings !? (wildcard "*"?)

Thanks

"app_offline.htm"

Cool thanks guys!!