Occaisionaly our server goes down and we have something in place to start it back up again if it detects it's down.
what i was hoping for was a friendly server maintenance message along with something like "if you need help you can contact us at ...." whenever the server was down, whether we brought it down manually or if it just crashed and was in the process of restarting itself.
I know you can do things like run a script if the server is down that would put a message like this into play and then when the server was back up, remove the message again, but was hoping there was a simple way to do it with no manual intervention and no moving parts hopefully.
starting to look like a pipe dream though (:
On 12/2/05, Scott Cadillac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Alan,
With Win2003 Server, you have to configure a "Web Service Extension" under
IIS to allow the Witango plugin to execute.
If you temporarily "Prohibit" the Witango extension definition, then IIS
responds with a 404 - and then you just have a 404 handler for your website
that redirects to your Default.htm file (or whatever).
When the Witango extension is "Allow", then the 404 handler should be
ignored for all your regular .taf file requests.
Setting up a 404 handler in IIS is easy. Use the "Custom Errors" tab, select
404b and set "message type" to URL and type "/Default.htm".
Hope that helps.
From ~ Scott Cadillac,
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Wolfe [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 9:38 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Witango-Talk: server maintenance message
>
> Hey guys,
>
> I was wondering, is there a way to make a custom page be
> displayed when someone hits a .taf, but witango is off?
>
> Sometimes we have to do system maintenance and shut down
> witango, but leave our web server on and it would be nice to
> say to the users that the system is down for maintenance and
> if they need help they can email as etc.
>
> We're on windows server 2003 and IIS if that makes a difference.
>
> Thanks!
> Alan
>
>
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