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

Note that this behaves the same on IIS 6 and 7.x, and .NET 2, 3, and 4.x.

Also note that when app_offline.htm is present, IIS will return this http status code:

HTTP/1.1 503 Service Unavailable

This is all by design. This allows your load balancer (or whatever) to see that the server is off line.