ASP.NET 2.0 - How to use app_offline.htm

Question

I\'ve read about the app_offline.htm file which can be placed within the root of a .NET 2.0 application which will in essence shut down the application and disa

Answer 1

I ran into an issue very similar to the original question that took me a little while to resolve.

Just incase anyone else is working on an MVC application and finds their way into this thread, make sure that you have a wildcard mapping to the appropriate .Net aspnet_isapi.dll defined. As soon as I did this, my app_offline.htm started behaving as expected.

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IIS 6 Configuration Steps

On IIS Application Properties, select virtual Directory tab.

Under Application Settings, click the Configuration button.

Under Wildcard application maps, click the Insert button.

Enter C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319\aspnet_isapi.dll, click OK.