Hi, I was told that to shutdown an ASP.NET site and replace all pages with a static text one should add an HTML file with a special extension. But my google/bing skills are not good enough, can you please help me with this?
Thanks
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A:
Create an "app_offline.htm" file and place it in the main directory of the application/website.
http://asp-net-whidbey.blogspot.com/2006/04/aspnet-20-features-appofflinehtm.html
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/10/06/426755.aspx
You can put whatever HTML content you want in the .htm file and any request to your application will display this file.
Note Mehmet Ergut's comment:
"The file size should be at least 512 bytes, or Internet Exploser won't display the contents." – Mehmet Ergut
Baddie
2009-11-07 00:23:23
The file size should be at least 512 bytes, or Internet Exploser won't display the contents.
Mehmet Ergut
2009-11-07 00:30:37
Thanks guys, app_offline.htm did the job.
amateur
2009-11-07 15:09:38
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Baddie
2009-11-08 00:47:18
Add an index.html file would just make any requests to your domain (http://www.mydomain.com/) return index.html. If say you had http://www.mydomain.com/test.html, I could still request that if I type it in my browser's address bar even if you have an index.html. If I was to put an app_offline.htm file, any requests to your application will return app_offline.htm
Baddie
2009-11-07 02:51:21