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Asked: 2026-05-11T05:43:20+00:00

We have a requirement to have our ASP.NET MVC websites be automatically closed down

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We have a requirement to have our ASP.NET MVC websites be automatically closed down by a remote notification (change in database value). Where would be the best place to implement this?

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Lots of suggestions to use app_offline but this scenario will be happening daily and will be purely initiated by the database so I would rather have the application take the initiative rather than something external push the file in.

Also, I will probably need to redirect the users to a holding page (preferably an MVC controller method to keep everything consistent). I’m leaning more towards catching it in my BaseController and having that handle it

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  1. I’m going to answer this myself as I did it a different way but thanks to everyone for their responses.

    What I ended up doing is overriding OnActionExecuting() in my BaseController class (which all my controllers derived from).

    In this method I check the database (using a 1 minute cache) and if the website is closed I load up a view to display a closed message. Code shown below

    Protected Overrides Sub OnActionExecuting(ByVal filterContext As System.Web.Mvc.ActionExecutingContext)             MyBase.OnActionExecuting(filterContext)              Dim _cfgService = ObjectFactory.GetInstance(Of IConfigService)()              If _cfgService.DynamicConfig.WebSiteClosed Then                 filterContext.Result = ErrorHandler(_cfgService.DynamicConfig.WebSiteClosedTitle, _                                                     _cfgService.DynamicConfig.WebSiteClosedMessage)             End If         End Sub
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