Question

I have a website in IIS.

That is a sitecore website. So it has core, master and web databases.

Now I want to stop all databases for about 2 or 3 hours for some reasons.

I do not want to stop the website.

Instead, I want to redirect all requests to a certain page.

So, I created a page in its root directory called Error_Page.html.

In web.config,

<customErrors mode="On" defaultRedirect="~/Error_Page.html" />

I add this.

I also turn on HTTP Redirect feature.

And point to that page for all requests.

But when I type in the website, it is giving me the error that it cannot connect to core database.

I know that for sitecore to work, it needs core database.

I want to know is there anyway for me to change so that, it will redirect to that page.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Simply add a page called App_Offline.htm to the root of the application, and the contents of that page will be served for all requests until you remove/rename it.

See here for more information: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/10/06/426755.aspx