Redirect to a "site maintenance" page

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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
 
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.

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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.




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Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) said:
Provided it is site maintenance and not server maintenance, point the site, in IIS, to a different directory.
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Mike Gleason jr Couturier said:
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
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"app_offline.htm"

Cool thanks guys!!
 
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