Comments on: Proper way to take an IIS website down for maintenance

By: frankthetank

frankthetank — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:17:10 +0000

Yeah that doesn’t make sense for the rewrite. But giving a little more information will help us give a more precise answer and help not confuse others.

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 15:02:09 +0000

I don’t see how ISAPI_Rewrite has anything to do with taking an IIS site down for maintanance (if it has, it would be good to know).

This is the product description:

“ISAPI_Rewrite is a powerful URL manipulation engine based on regular expressions. It acts mostly like Apache’s mod_Rewrite, but is designed specifically for Microsoft’s Internet Information Server (IIS). ISAPI_Rewrite is an ISAPI filter written in pure C/C++ so it is extremely fast. ISAPI_Rewrite gives you the freedom to go beyond the standard URL schemes and develop your own scheme”.

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If it is an ASP.NET site, you could take advantage of the app_offline.htm file.

Take a look at this tip:
Taking an ASP.NET Site Offline with a Message

By: rechil

rechil — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:52:41 +0000

If you have admin access to the server, you could use ISAPI_Rewrite. This is an ISAPI filter that you setup in the IIS configuration. There is a paid and free version.
It helps to maintain and performance of IIS….

By: technochic

technochic — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:29:55 +0000

Please tell us the OS version on the server and the IIS version. Also tell us what sort of maintenance you plan on doing. The more details you provide the better we can assist you. Thanks!