Thursday, March 23, 2006
For site maintenance consider app_offline.htm
If you are making updates to your site and want to keep the users at bay with a polite notice then look no futher than the app_offline.htm file.
Create an HTML file called app_offline.htm, drop it in the root directory of your web, and your site will be offline with style.
Very early in the request cycle, ASP.NET 2.0 looks for the app_offline.htm file. If the file exists, ASP.NET stop processing requests for that application, unload it, and route all incoming requests to the app_offline.htm where your custom message awaits.
One handy side effect is the fact that this releases any locked resources such as databases in the app_data directory.
When finished, delete or even rename the app_offline.htm file to return users to their regularly scheduled browsing.
Create an HTML file called app_offline.htm, drop it in the root directory of your web, and your site will be offline with style.
Very early in the request cycle, ASP.NET 2.0 looks for the app_offline.htm file. If the file exists, ASP.NET stop processing requests for that application, unload it, and route all incoming requests to the app_offline.htm where your custom message awaits.
One handy side effect is the fact that this releases any locked resources such as databases in the app_data directory.
When finished, delete or even rename the app_offline.htm file to return users to their regularly scheduled browsing.
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