How can I indicate to users that my IIS website is undergoing maintenance?

Question

For my IIS website, I\'d like to redirect ALL requests to ONE page. The purpose of this is that I want to do some maintenance on the database (take it off-line) that all my

Answer 1

In IIS 10 there is an optional component "HTTP Redirect" (it may be available in earlier IIS versions; I don't know). It allows you to set up very simple catch-all redirects, using any of the common HTTP redirect response codes. This can be installed via Server Manager, in Windows Server 2019.