nice idea, that would have been great if it did! (:

On 12/2/05, John Muldoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
Oops... Sorry, it doesn't work

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Cadillac [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 2:36 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: server maintenance message

Yeah, for unexpected crashes my suggestion won't help.

This particular issue has been discussed many times before. I don't
think you can get around that hard-coded message by conventional
methods.

Good luck.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Wolfe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 1:32 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: server maintenance message
>
> It does a bit yeah.
>
> 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.
>
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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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