Hi All, I am working on issue that the issue is as follows. http://riskpaqweb/ is an intranet portal which is hosted in IIS. And this shows the home page of the intranet portal. Currently this website is under up gradation and some modifications .So i need to host a holding page during this up gradation. i mean to say that when ever one user opens the link http://riskpaqweb/ i have to show this holding page which shows the end users that the system is currently up gradation. I have to redirect the home page to this holding page this is the requirement. could any one please suggest. Thanks and Regards Balaji Y

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it really depends on your enviornment. For some of our sites, we have 2 web directiores set up, port 80 and 81. Port 81 is the "site down" page. Maintenance is just flicking the ports (by a automated job). The devs know that if they need to test the site during maintenace then use port 81. This is fine for some of our internal sites, but there is a risk that someone else will access the site over :81 (which may be unacceptable) Other ways is to port forward (netsh interface portproxy) to somewhere else, but this may impact the ability of the team doing the upgrade to test the site. Or just change the DNS entry for riskpaqweb to point to another server

Hi Balaji, Thanks for posting here. You may also consider customizing error pages for informing the situation or maybe auto redirect to the proper address if custom by ASP: Configuring Custom Error Messages (IIS 6.0) http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/80cb8d8d-8fd8-4af5-bb3b-4d11fff3ab9c.mspx?mfr=true Creating Custom ASP Error Pages http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224070 Thanks. Tiger Li Please remember to click Mark as Answer on the post that helps you, and to click Unmark as Answer if a marked post does not actually answer your question. This can be beneficial to other community members reading the thread.