Thursday, October 25, 2012

How to take a website offline

Quick and easy way is to create a simple html file, and call it app_offline.htm, and paste it to your website root directory. Note that the file has to be named as app_offline.htm

Once IIS finds this file, it stops further processing.

To make your website online, just delete this file or rename this file
 
<!-- Sample app_offline.htm file  -->
<html>
<HEAD><title>Web Site Down for Maintenance</title>
</head>
<body>
<H1>Your custom message blah blah blah</H1>
<BR>
<!--      

    To prevent IE 404 error, I am adding few lines of commented text
  

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

    <h2>IE Cannot handle files less than 512bytes in size. It works in Firefox and Chrome ...</h2>

-->
</body>
</html>

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